Q. How is Not Voting Not The Stupidest Thing To Do To Initiate Change?

[theFrankFactor]

[LiberalAndProud]

1. I think it's really smart. You'll keep them right where they want you.

or something like that.
















JIC:sarcasm:

[dionysus]

2. .

:popcorn:

[bobbolink]

3. Calling people stupid is a sure-fire way to get them to vote for you.

Works every time.

[RedCloud]

4. Imagine if 2 dictators ran against each other and got only one vote each.

Good old none of the above wins!

[Taitertots]

5. Ok, you can vote between getting slapped in the face with a right hand or a left hand

How does voting for getting slapped in the face make you better off?

[xchrom]

6. You sound like the Borg. Nt

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[theFrankFactor]

9. Let's try this again... NOT VOTING BRINGS ABOUT POSITIVE CHANGE BECAUSE IT...

Your turn! Fill in the rest. I'm sure it must be easy, right?

[edhopper]

11. Are you talking about we as citizens not voting

Or the dem senators in WI not voting?

[theFrankFactor]

12. I'm Asking in Reference to Citizens Not Voting...

I hear this "I'll show 'em, I won't vote!" bull shit and I hear it from my party. To which I have to ask "how in the Hell does THAT accomplish anything?"

[Bandit]

10. Caring is getting to be too big a deal

I can not continue on with the hearbreak. I will go fishing instead and whoever wins will do the bidding of the Corporations just like now..Why should I "worry my beautiful mind" over any so-called election? It is rapidly becoming about me. Ignorance is bliss and I think I will go with ignorance for a while and see if I feel any better..I talked to a couple of my Liberal friends yesterday. I only talk to these guys about every year or so. They are so disgusted with Obama and the Democrats they doubt they will vote either..It won't change a thing..I personally refuse to vote for a Republican, no matter what letter they have after their name..If my choice is between Obama and some other Republican I will choose not to vote..We will get a Republican no matter what so why bother?

[dionysus]

15. .

:cry:

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Well, it worked in WI.

Not voting resulted in the election of a governor who became so wildly unpopular within 2 months of taking office that the whole state is up ion arms & ready to ride him to the State Line on a rail. Voter inaction resulted in waking up a helluva lot more people across the nation than would have happened if Tom Barrett had been elected & just given us a normal, reasonably progressive administration.

There were active right-wing efforts to suppress the votes here in 2010. Those efforts worked. Now the wingnuts are about to learn the meaning of "blowback."

[blindpig]

14. Yeah, voting worked so well in 2008.

When you participate in the capitalist's sanctioned dog&pony show you get capitalist's sanctioned results.

There's a lot more to politics than the polls.

[dionysus]

16. maybe your communist party can "save us"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[LoZoccolo]

17. May I suggest something?

While I agree with you, this thread is likely to be locked because there is no way to answer it sincerely without breaking the rules. It is against the rules to advocate not voting.

You may want to change it so that answering it does not necessarily reflect one's own opinion, such as asking "What reasons are generally given to justify not voting?" That way, people can answer it without defending the practice of not voting.