captmcblack
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ChocolateCupcakes said:
You aren't voting to appease anyone but yourself. That is the point of voting - to make yourself represented in your government's interests, so that the government has to appease you.
Not knowing who you want to vote for is your own fault; if you really wanted to vote, you'd have gotten informed and then been able to make a sound decision. Don't like any of the candidates? Write your own choice in.
In fact, if you wanted to you didn't even have to vote for any candidates - they still have votes for various measures, propositions and rules that are important to you on an immediate/local level. For example in California, you could have hated both candidates - but you could've left all the candidate choices blank and voted for or against Proposition 19 if legalizing marijuana was important to you.
Like I said, not voting because you are too lazy is an honest and informed/acceptable decision; at least you have the courage to accept being part of the problem and deal with the slings/arrows you may receive for that, and that's respectable. But any other excuse or problem someone could've had with voting is resolved so simply and with such minimal personal effort...it's just weak, is all.
The system is as broken as the people participating in it...and the only people participating in it are the people benefiting from it (old people, rich people, corporations). Why should the system represent or be more appealing to you if you're too cool to get involved?
Don't take it personal though - I don't think anyone is less cool, or less of a person, or not a good person for deciding not to vote. That's your own decision, and it's whatever. You are who you are regardless! No judgment is being cast on you as a person at all.
