The AARP advises you not to vote.
That is, until you know where the candidates stand on the issues.
But, go to their website and you won’t find out where the candidates stand.
Only links to campaign propaganda.
So, I guess they really don’t want you to vote after all.
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I’m now living in California. This will be the first time I can vote here and after reading the current propositions I must say – this place makes me sick. I’m supposed to go into the box and vote on nearly every prop that, if passed, will violate others’ rights. Ugh. Some of the FOR arguments are just plain idiotic.
California should supply Pepto Bismol at the polls.
Our office just got a notice from the Department of Industrial Relations today for the latest increase in minimum wage. I wanted to put the note on the table, grab a pen, and trace a certain gesture of my left hand on it and send it back to them. They may as well have done the same thing in the first place.
“Democracies, have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”
– James Madison, the “father of the Constitution”
“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
– John Adams
Indeed the very act of having an election polarizes and _creates_ division, because someone wins while someone else loses.
This is why a free market is so much more viable and lasting than any so-called “democracy”, because I can have coke, you can have pepsi, and neither of us “loses” because the other one “won”.
It’s too bad that there are so many people willing to fight over the dregs falling from the open maw that is “government”, the vast majority seem convinced that no matter how awful government is that there _must_ be government. With that premise, fighting over the scraps is a logical endeavor.
It is the anarchist, the one who understands that government itself is elective, that can rationally consider the effects of removing consent and getting on with living, rather than spending so much energy squabbling over the spoils of taxation which merely impoverish many to give spare benefits to a few.
Personally, I vote so that I can vote against any and all incombants (except Ron Paul). I have never voted for a candidate who won, therefore I am completely unrepresented at all levels of government. Figures, don’t it.
Curt,
I vote “none of the above.” So I guess I’m completely unrepresented as well.
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