[QUOTE="JDWolfie"][QUOTE="Franklinstein"]Yeah... because not voting REALLY sticks it to the man. You guys are such rebels. I wish I was cool enough to not vote.Optical_Order
I'm not really trying to be cool. I'm just tired of all the garbage day in and day out.
Don't ever listen in on politics then, because that's not changing anytime soon.
That is literally impossible. I even get phone calls at my house.
All my claims have been general hypotheticals. You keep making stuff up to argue against. I never mentioned or said anything about the TC who you keep bringing up. I never said anything about the TC or anyone else's vote influencing other voters which you've argued against a couple of times. I never said anything about one person being 51% or 1% of total voters or whatever nonsensical arguement you were trying to make back there. It's like one big strawman with you.dagreenfish
Uh...All MY claims have been hypotheticals. It doesn't matter if we're talking about the tc, or you, or me. It doesn't matter if the percentage of nonvoters is 50% or 11% or 80%. The whole point is that your hypotheticals are entirely revolved around general trends, and general trends have nothing to do with behaviour on the level of a single individual. Your entire argument is on a societal level, and that has absolutely NOTHING to do with any particular person deciding to vote or not vote. And that actually speaks to another issue: the fact that when people vote, they actually think that they are helping to benefit society. At least in the USA, voting is the EASIEST means of being politically active, the one which carries the least consequences and requires nothing on the part of the person doing it. Writing letters to your congressman? Organizing a protest or a boycott? Writing books or making art which challenges peoples' ideas? Hell...even standing on a street corner passing out flyers? F*** that, I voted. I pulled a lever like a ****ing rat in a lab. That's it. To even pretend that an individual voting has anything to do with society at large is to vastly overstate what an individual voting actually does. And I am not the least bit surprised that many voters elevate their role in political participation, because that's all that many people will ever do. Any time I see someone making some point about how important and grand voting is, all I see is someone whose level of participation begins and ends at "voting".
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