That was my reaction too. I made a few changes to my friends list, which I'll probably revert when the disgusted reaction subsides.
Yesterday was the first time in many years I had voted. I voted for only one candidate, a write-in, and on two questions. The reason I voted was that I've become very interested in the potential of voting machines for fraud, and wanted to experience voting first-hand to see how much it may have changed. (In New Hampshire it hasn't changed much. By law there must be a paper trail, and I marked a paper ballot which was fed into a reading machine. No Diebold machines with secret proprietary software.)
Elections in the US have become a means by which people try to grab other people's money, or control other people's lives. The Democrats do a bit more of the first, the Republicans a bit more of the second. But either way, it's gang warfare by mutually accepted rules to avoid overt bloodshed (and isn't even succeeding so well at that these days). By voting for either participant in such a battle, I'd just be granting legitimacy to their power-grabbing.
If people want to disagree with me on that, fine. When they demand that I vote and call me "idiot" if I don't, I'm not going to waste my time reading anything else they have to say.
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Date: 2006-11-08 11:17 am (UTC)Yesterday was the first time in many years I had voted. I voted for only one candidate, a write-in, and on two questions. The reason I voted was that I've become very interested in the potential of voting machines for fraud, and wanted to experience voting first-hand to see how much it may have changed. (In New Hampshire it hasn't changed much. By law there must be a paper trail, and I marked a paper ballot which was fed into a reading machine. No Diebold machines with secret proprietary software.)
Elections in the US have become a means by which people try to grab other people's money, or control other people's lives. The Democrats do a bit more of the first, the Republicans a bit more of the second. But either way, it's gang warfare by mutually accepted rules to avoid overt bloodshed (and isn't even succeeding so well at that these days). By voting for either participant in such a battle, I'd just be granting legitimacy to their power-grabbing.
If people want to disagree with me on that, fine. When they demand that I vote and call me "idiot" if I don't, I'm not going to waste my time reading anything else they have to say.