When I hear that "people who don't vote have no right to bitch" speech a few things come to mind...
I guess this assumes that if 100% of the people voted there would be no bitching, because obviously they would have voted in the correct candidate and life would be perfect.....
Maybe the people who are bitching actually voted for the correct candidate but the majority of the voters voted in some jerk that can't run the country.....so you end up with people in bars bitching about some policy or another....you ask them who they voted for, and they say the other candidate.....
as if we just lost what amounts to being a coin flip, and we just happen to get lousy presidents and leaders every year because not enough people came out and voted for the guy who didn't make it into office who obviously was the better choice????
I must be one of the ones who you guys refer to as the ones who bitch and don't vote.....Yes I bitch, and no, I don't vote......I had this little argument with my parents years ago .......
They had the same attitude as some I have seen here, that regardless who the candidates are or what they stand for that you must go out and vote for one of them....
BULL$HIT!......If I think that all the candidates blow do I really need to try and figure out which one is the lesser of two evils? What if neither candidate supports any of my beliefs about policies and the way this country is run? I'm supposed to vote for someone who I don't agree with just for something to do?
People who don't vote have the absolute right to bitch if they feel the candidates are all incompetent............I'm not going feel any better about this country with the choices I have to vote for this year than I have in any other years past.......
The only person who I would have voted for at any time during my voting tenure would have been Ross Perot.....only because he seemed like the type who would have actually cut through all the bull$hit and got down to the business of running the country....he had the balls to say what was on his mind and didn't spend time on all the rhetoric that the normal politicians rely on. If he would have gotten in I think a lot of things would have been shaken up, maybe he was a little too radical or just too plain brutally honest for most people to handle.....this approach in all likelihood would have earned him an assassin's bullet.....too many would have been put on the hot seat had he made it into office....
Personally, I don't feel much is going to change with the election of one candidate over another one......what needs to change is THE SYSTEM.
Too much graft and corruption in the political field.....politicians are allowed to receive large contributions by special interest groups in the same country where policemen on patrol are required to pay for something as trivial as a cup of coffee???
Too much bribery.....kickbacks......basic self-interested politicians trying to come across like they're going to wave a wand and straighten everything out.....
Too much money and time spent on EMOTIONAL issues like flag burning or prayer in public school......
A lot of people tell you that freedom comes from the flag.....HELLO!.....your freedom comes from the constitution and the bill of rights....there are 190 some countries.....most if not all have a flag.....are they all equally free just because they have some piece of cloth waving on a pole? NO.....they fought in wars and some of them died also, the ones who came back had the same restrictions on thier freedoms because thier country's rules and laws and personal freedoms sucked......they still had a flag when they got back......there was a time in this country when women couldn't vote and blacks and minorities had to use separate bathrooms than whites or just plain weren't served in some restaurants for nothing more than thier color......some of those people fought in wars the US fought in......whose freedom were they fighting for? When people tell you the flag gives you freedom they're full of $hit. All they are playing is the patriot card, politicians love the patriot card and use it to the fullest.....
Prayer in public school is simple: If you have children in school and you want them to say a prayer, then send them to the religious school of your choice, where bibles are studied and religion is taught. Public school is for learning basics like math and how to read and write, history, science and the like. Put the prayer in parochial school and leave the public schools alone.
The latest emotional issue seems to be all this fuss over the gender of two people getting married........Live and let live people......I'm not gay, I don't understand it, my rights end where another persons begins.....I don't care what two consenting adults do in thier own bedroom......maybe I still live in a free country.....My country has a flag so I MUST be free....
Some other poster mentioned in the gay thread that if we could do whatever we wanted to do then he should be free to just go out and rob a bank.....I think he's trying to make an analogy but he's forgetting that aspect of CONSENTING ADULTS.....two gays or lesbians may be consenting adults, banks, the last time I checked, didn't consent to being robbed....
Too much freedom of U.S. politicians in world events and too much freedom in spending U.S. tax dollars wherever and however they see fit.....Restrictions have to be placed on these......the American public needs to be informed of how thier money is being spent, if they knew all the crap that goes on behind closed doors they'd be shocked and rightfully so......
As cynical as I may sound, with the current system of corruption and unchecked power, it really won't matter who I vote for because the system hasn't changed, only the people who shuffle though the system will change....
while your cities and thier infrastructures are rusting and aging to pieces, your politicians will be raking in those dollars under the table and spending your tax dollars fighting some other country's wars and then rebuilding all the bridges we levelled......
while your national debt is spiralling out of control and you wonder if there will be any social security left when you reach retirement age, while all of the concrete issues like health care and unemployment or care for the elderly or other social issues are being neglected......isn't it nice to know your government is spending billions of dollars arguing over prayer in school or whether or not a flag is on fire????
Vote for whoever you want, I'm tired of being jerked-off by all the rhetoric politicians use, tired of seeing them bring up emotional issues and dodging the real issues that matter......they talk a pretty good game but none of them deliver.....pretty much just hollow, lofty promises......
Am I cynical? Yes, and I have every reason to be....
