WAKE UP and EXERCISE your *CIVIL RIGHTS* NOW! Do NOT sleep through this election!

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Now I know a lot of you aren't Obama fans, and that's great my dear super, super gazillionaire friends. That's perfectly fine. Vote for whoever you feel would best represent you. *VOTE*! Your vote is important. Do not let this election come to pass with you snoring in bed. There is no fucking excuse whatsoever to not vote.

Wake up guys. This is a god damn democracy. We fought hard for our nation and it's time we take it back. You MUST be part of the solution. If you run away now, where will your kids hide? We must vote and show these cock suckers who really runs this country!

You can be damn sure I'm voting this year (not disclosing, and no I'm not necessarily voting for Obama).
 


The US is an oligarchy, not a democracy, regardless of how much media and "vote now!" ads push that idea.
 
Yes your vote COUNTS because your representatives have to vote (in most states) according to what most people did. Seriously guys, please vote and exercise your civil rights. God dammit do you know how many people in the world wished they could have just this beautiful power? Guys, don't lose it ever.
 
You guys wonder why this country is slowly sliding into shit when it's only stupid motherfuckers like me in the booths. Come on, you really don't have a legitimate excuse not to vote guys!

Please, please, please guys vote. I can't say this enough. Really, let us take back our country. For the record, I have 10 sb instances running at 4.5 million blogs saying "Vote please" (more colorful adcopy) and email marketing going down. My personal goal is to get 100 us citizens in the booths.
 
pewep said:
You guys wonder why this country is slowly sliding into shit when it's only stupid motherfuckers like me in the booths. Come on, you really don't have a legitimate excuse not to vote guys!

Please, please, please guys vote. I can't say this enough. Really, let us take back our country. For the record, I have 10 sb instances running at 4.5 million blogs saying "Vote please" (more colorful adcopy) and email marketing going down. My personal goal is to get 100 us citizens in the booths.
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Let me guess. There is a big push to 'get out the vote' at your college? Hrmmm.
 
Vote 3rd party. Take out the "Wasted Vote" mentality, and vote Independent. Both parties are corporate owned and we won't be fixed until we get some Independents in the mix. Then hopefully campaign finance reform, term limits etc.. can start taking shape for the repair.
 
My vote is meaningless for President, since Obama currently has an 10%+ lead in my state. I'll be voting 3rd party.

But I'll be damned sure to try and vote out the fucker who is my current House Representative as well as my State Representative and State Senator, both of which narrowly won last time around.
 
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You didn't fight for this country. The fight for this country was lost long ago. People today are pussies, physically and intellectually. No, you didn't fight for this country. And I doubt you would ever lift a finger for anything remotely worthy of integrity, self-responsibility or growth. Saying that we fought for this country is bullshit. We didn't fight for this country, we fought to give it away.

Your vote is not important. And thinking that a political system where people vote is the height of civilization is in reality the height of ignorance. Your vote is not realized by what you say on paper, but rather by what you do in life. Talk is cheap, and so is voting. You don't create change by voting, you create change by creating change -- actually going out and doing something. Real change doesn't happen through government or a political system, it happens through creativity and effort.

People are going to rule over others no matter which way we skin a society. It isn't about herding people into groups where they have masters and leaders. This is what animals have, not humans. I'm an individual, not part of a group of people. I make choices individually, not collectively. I represent myself and don't choose to have others represent me. It is not possible for somebody to represent me better than myself. It doesn't matter if there are good guys or bad guys in power. I am still me and I am still able to live my life as I wish. I don't render my adoration towards any one country or race. These are primitive ideals for animals. Voting doesn't have bearing over me. People in power are going to do what they want to do no matter what. It doesn't matter whether their power is realized through covert democracy or overt tyranny, they still hold the cards. So I am going to operate the same way these people in power operate: individually. I am going to exercise my own free will and operate within the confines of my own reality.

So please stop this bullshit about voting, civil rights and all the other entertainment that comes with it. Show business will always entertain the masses. Vice will always get the votes. To quote from the great Manly P. Hall:

One of the difficulties of a representative government is that it does represent us. It does not do what we hope it will do - allow us to vote for persons more perfect than ourselves. If we had the chance we would not vote for them anyway, because anything more perfect than ourselves would frighten us.
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Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
 
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." - Alexis de Tocqueville
 
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pewep said:
Yes your vote COUNTS because your representatives have to vote (in most states) according to what most people did. Seriously guys, please vote and exercise your civil rights. God dammit do you know how many people in the world wished they could have just this beautiful power? Guys, don't lose it ever.
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The power to vote for one of two people who are exactly the same?
 
JakeStratham said:
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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I've seen this quote several times and took it for face value without thinking about it or researching it until now.

Democracy's history started in Athens and it lasted for almost 300 years until they got stomped by Sparta (naturally). Elements of Greek governance lived on in the Roman empire which lasted for over 1,000 years afaik.

tldr; that number is bullshit
 
pewep said:
I'm a fully informed independent voter.
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Andrew Scherer said:
Elements of Greek governance lived on in the Roman empire which lasted for over 1,000 years afaik.
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The Roman Empire was a dictatorship for much of its history, the period during which it was a functional republic was much shorter.

Regardless of De Tocqueville's generalization about age, the real nugget is how government (and in many cases, civilization) collapses.
 
Andrew Scherer said:
I've seen this quote several times and took it for face value without thinking about it or researching it until now.

Democracy's history started in Athens and it lasted for almost 300 years until they got stomped by Sparta (naturally). Elements of Greek governance lived on in the Roman empire which lasted for over 1,000 years afaik.

tldr; that number is bullshit
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His mention of 200 years irked me. Moreover, the claim seems valueless to me. But omitting it felt disingenuous since it was part of his point.
 
guerilla said:
Regardless of De Tocqueville's generalization about age, the real nugget is how government (and in many cases, civilization) collapses.
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It is specifically about how democracy can't sustain as a permanent form of government, but isn't it also true that no form or type of government is permanent...?

It seems like a "feel-good" quote for politic buffs. Reads well and sounds good, but says very little.
 
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