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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  As I said.
It is your right to vote, or not.
I simply don't understand where there is any logic in not voting.
There is a system in place that gives you a voice. What message is sent when that voice sits silently? Has it EVER compelled change in the last 200+ years, because that is how long some of the electorate has been silent? |
Well, we'll get it right out front, that I do vote.
However, I would counter the argument that "if you don't vote you have no right to complain" (which I know you didn't explicitly make, this isn't being attributed directly to you Os) with "if you do vote, especially if you vote for a "front running major party endorsed candidate", you have no right to complain".
In the last election, for example, if you voted for George Bush or John Kerry, you have endorsed the idea that whichever one of those candidates is selected has the right and the power to make decisions for the entire country. Even if your candidate didn't win, you agreed that whoever did win would be our "leader". If that "leader" does something with which you disagree, it doesn't matter, because you agreed to follow the "leader" that was selected.
By voting you forfeit your right to complain about which "leader" was selected.
Or, at least, that is a strong and somewhat convincing argument to me.
Keith