JoseCuervo
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Paws,
You truly are a pathetic little man...
You truly are a pathetic little man...
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I got this off a similar thread on another board, from someone I respect and who's been around the block a time or two. This pretty much put my mind in knots, but I will vote. For whom is another story...There's no such thing as not voting if you're qualified to vote. "Not voting" is an unfocused vote -- a tacit vote that says "whomever the rest of you elect is just fine by me." If you're anti-Bush and stay home on election day -- and the rest of us reelect Bush -- you've voted for Bush by leaving the election to the rest of us.
The same goes for any vote that you cast for a candidate whom you know can't win -- Nadir (intentional misspelling -- your dictionary'll tell you why) or Sharpyton, for example. Only one anti vote works the way that you want it to -- your vote for the other viable candidate, whom your vote can possibly help to elect. Only by helping to elect Choice B can you effectively oppose Choice A.
The real choice is essentially the same as the one I identified over 30 years ago for a besieged Montana special-interest group -- the choice between
• an exerted effort to change the situation, with some real possibility of changing it
and
• the purely private "feel good" satisfaction that can have no effect on the situation as others decide it
One way or another, you vote -- by the ballot or by the sofa.