Recently I've been spending my time reminding voters that election day comes soon, (next Tuesday) and reminding them of who they should vote for. There is no real expectation that anyone will take my advice and vote the way I want them to, but the theory is that the majority are smart enough to vote in their own best interests.
Oddly there have been several people in every batch of voters who didn't like my ideas on who and what to vote for. More interesting were those who thought that my calling to remind them of their need to vote was evil and insulting. One person told me that, if they could, they would bundle all the voter pamphlets, candidate mailings, ads and entreaties etc. and dump them on my personal doorstep, as if the whole annoying mess was my fault.
Yes, I know that the voting process has become fraught; however, we do still live in a democracy. If we don't vote who then is left to decide? Let's just remember that money talks and those who have it don't just vote, they pay for the legislation (ALEC) and the legislators (all parties) that lead us.
In spite of the fact that The United States Founders didn't trust the citizenry to be smart enough to rule themselves, we live in a country where one person - one vote is the rule. Where that's true the anti-election folks are abdicating their chance to run their own country. It's annoying to get called several times by multiple candidates and to find your mailbox stuffed with candidates info for sure. What's more annoying is to have those in power not represent the voters they were elected to serve.
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