Why I’m not going to Vote today

Vot­ing is our civil duty, is it not?  I don’t believe so, it’s our priv­i­lege, our right, and we can chose to exer­cise it or not.  For far too long peo­ple have told me that every­one should vote, every elec­tion, and every­one should chose the lesser of two evils based upon their stand­point, I’m writ­ing this tonight to call plain and utter BS! You read right, I’m call­ing the entire vot­ing sys­tem a scam, a fraud, and a fail­ure, not because our votes don’t count, not because they mean noth­ing, but sim­ply because it’s failed in the way vot­ers make their choices.

8 years ago I was dat­ing a girl in North Car­olina, she dis­closed to me that she was going to vote for one of the can­di­dates because he was “cuter” than the other; Therein lies the entire philo­soph­i­cal prob­lem I have with our elec­tion process.  This elec­tion makes that espe­cially true, I shud­der to think the amount of African-American vot­ers who will vote for Obama purely based on the fact that he is black; same goes for the oppo­si­tion with female vot­ers who will vote McCain purely because Palin is a female. By all means, I mean no dis­re­spect for either group, females or African-Americans, my point here is sim­ply the fact that we pick one small deter­min­ing fac­tor and it out­weighs all others. 

Has any­one really checked into the poli­cies of McCain or Obama this elec­tion? There’s been lit­tle dis­cus­sion in regards to their poli­cies, every­thing that’s dis­cussed these days is how much Palin is spend­ing on clothes and whether Obama truly is Mus­lim or not.  We have sev­eral major issues that are on the plate, our econ­omy, the Iraq war, deal­ing with ter­ror­ism (or our fear thereof,) and finally the desta­bi­liza­tion of the world eco­nomic mar­ket­place which will cause War, Famine, Pesti­lence, etc if it is untreated and remains unchecked. Regard­less of which politi­cian is elected, we should all be prepar­ing for a hard road ahead, I will close with a favorite quote:

“Any­one who is capa­ble of get­ting them­selves made Pres­i­dent should on no account be allowed to do the job.” — Dou­glas Adams

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