I have my leanings. I have made no bones about them. I feel that a certain party preys on the weak minded, soundbite swallowing masses. They get the cheap bump from the crowd by mentioning a couple of buzzwords to get them riled up and thereby thinking like a mob.
I have heard the mob mentality equation defined as: Take the leader/speaker of the mob. The guy who gets them going. Take his IQ, divide it by the number of the mob. This number is the average IQ of the people in the mob. Say the leader has a 120 IQ. If there are 10 people in the mob, the average IQ of these normal people is reduced to 12. I am pretty sure even George W. Bush Jr. was in the 20's.
For the purposes of this blog, I will do my damnedest to keep it bipartisan in the blame.
Why You Should Not Vote.
The primary reason... It does not matter.
Your vote will not make a difference because all politicians are corrupt pieces of shit, entrenched in the system of lobbyists and monetary influences on a level which you could never compete.
There was a round of legislation after the Sandy Hook Shooting Massacre that called for more stringent background checks and reduction of magazine sizes. It had public support in the high 80's, and by some reports, 90% range. It did not pass. Why? The NRA, that's why. I hope it cost them a lot of money to buy off all the votes, and I hope the ghosts of all the victims of gun violence haunt their fucking dreams every fucking night.
A politician will say things in his or her ad... And then suddenly... Due to party lines being dictated by unions, corporate overlords, or lobbyists (like the example above), they do the exact opposite of what they promised in their campaigns.
Speaking of ads... "Oh, it is a week before the election... I still do not know how I will vote... I hope I hear another political ad on the radio or see another ad on TV." SAID NO ONE EVER.
Geography can play a part in your choosing not to participate in your governance. For me, personally, I live in occupied territory. Very red. Very redneck. Very dumb. My vote will be washed away by racists assholes who will exhaust every reason under the sun in order to avoid saying "I just don't like that colored fella in charge."
Redistricting will "disenfranchise" almost 25-30 million voters this mid-term. A certain party has made it more difficult to vote in Texas. Mostly to discourage elderly people and non-Caucasians from voting. Texas allows people with Concealed Carry Licenses to vote, but not Student IDs... Guns win over education, again.
As soon as the Supreme Court tried to summarily declare racism dead, by removing clauses to the Voting Laws, Texas legislators put forth 33 some odd new voting laws. I think this coincided with statistic that showed Latinos will be the majority demographic by 2020. They may have an opinion or two on Immigration Reform.
These new laws were to stop the scourge, the plague, of "voter fraud". Um... What voter fraud?
Again... All of this is moot, because you have no voice in the electoral process.
Why You Are a Fucking Idiot If You Do Not Vote.
What are the things you can do to honor a veteran? Put a fashionable ribbon on your truck? Tie a yellow ribbon around a tree? Give up your first class seat on a plane? (Actually saw a girl do this, made me think "Gee, we might make it after all.")
Here's an idea... How about you get off your ass and go exercise a right for which they fought and died for instead of spouting stupid shit and claiming "Freedom of Speech".
The biggest fear of the people in power is an informed population. This is why in a nightly national newscast, there is about 4 to 8 minutes of actual news that could be defined as "informative".
The current Congress has an approval rating in the low tweens. 12% or below. This is both the Senate and the House of "Representatives". Quotation marks were intentional... Casts derision. The same Congress usually has a 90% incumbency rate. Same assholes, same problems...
I really would like to see a rap sheet on my voting machine. A little icon or blurb that gives me one or two more vital pieces of intel... For one, show me the incumbent. The person who is in office presently. Second, on the incumbent, the year first elected to office. This way, I can see that the ads this person has been running, spouting "Washington is BROKEN!", it will be easy to see that this candidate is PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM!
America gets the government that it shows up for on voting day.
If you do not vote... You can still bitch, but I give it as much credence as I do an errant hair on my shirt. Seriously, voting gives you the glorious right to say, "I didn't vote for that asshole/bitch."
If you didn't vote... It is akin to bending over and offering your ass to the next group of officials to penetrate. You are the female bonobo monkey of governance... You lie there and take it from the entire tribe until your genitalia is red and swollen from constant abuse. I do so love to paint a picture.
If you do not know where you lie in the political spectrum, it is really quite simple...
Are you male, old, white, and really rich? You should vote "Republican".
Everyone else... Vote "Not Republican".
And that is another fun option when voting... I did not vote all Democrat. Some contests did not have a Democrat running, so I voted Anti-GOP in those.
Participation is not mandatory in our bloodless coup of the government, like it is in Brazil, but if you are a young person, do you want people so far out of touch with you and your concerns enacting laws for you?
For the ladies... In 2013, more laws LIMITING your reproductive rights were passed then in the LAST DECADE. For fuck's sake... Do I need to bring up the bonobo monkey thing again??? I can add pictures to these things... Just sayin'.
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In the end... Please vote. It does matter.... Like the old saying goes, "The only things wrong with the world are ignorance and apathy."
My reply, when I was a dipshit, "I don't know and I don't care."
I have grown up since then... I know more now, and it is not that I "care" per se... I am just pissed off.
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