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Originally Posted by 6.5 shooter
Originally Posted by Smoky buck View Post
Most non voters don’t vote do to lack of accountability for politicians and poor options in candidates
Trust me they you can’t complain statement doesn’t mean a thing to those who don’t vote lol
I voted and have voted for a while now only because of trying to keep out the whack jobs that have gotten into politics. But I didn’t for years because my time was more valuable than the poor quality politicians we choose from
Want to see a huge increase in voter turnout improve accountability in politics
You sound like George Carlin, lol and he pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Here's an excerpt:
"I don’t vote ’cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around. I know, they say, they say: “well if you don’t vote you have no right to complain”. But where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent people, and they get into office and screw everything up, well you are responsible for what they have done, YOU caused the problem, you voted them in, you have no right to complain. I on the other hand, who did not vote, WHO DID NOT VOTE. Who in fact did not even leave the house on election-day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done, and have every RIGHT to complain as loud as I want, about the mess YOU created, that I had nothing to do with."
If you ever get a chance to listen (or read) George Carlin on Voting or the voting public, it's pretty hilarious, if not absolutely true. 
So not voting is the answer? and to back up your claims you use a Marxist/socialist as a bright beacon of logic. How the stomach turns. |
Did I actually say that I personally didn't vote, or make any claims validating that? No (happily voted in every election municipal/provincial/federal since 1988).
I merely drew some parallels between what a previous poster said regarding people that don't vote, and what a dead comedian said during one of his shows.
Comedian: Noun
"A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish, or employing prop comedy."
Some posts amaze me, they're just as bad or worse than the CBC. Cherry picking words/phrases, piecing it together as they see fit to accomplish what exactly, I have no idea. An ideology maybe, an agenda, just to be an antagonist? Who knows? It's pretty sad when people spend more of their time reading into things, instead of actually reading things.
Here's another definition.
Out of context: If a statement or remark is quoted out of context, the circumstances in which it was said are not correctly reported, so that it seems to mean something different from the meaning that was intended.
PS, Maybe get something to help with the turning stomach.