I was an Atomic Robot Jungle Vixen!

I was just talking with two of the younger women here at work who were saying they don't care about politics and don't follow any of that stuff. Okay, not really caring about stuff that actually affects your life, fine. That's your choice. However, they still vote.

So if they don't follow any of this and they don't really care about politics, who do they vote for? Who their parents tell them to vote for.

That's right, they vote for who their parents tell them to vote for. This is nothing new. People have been voting for the party their Pappy voted for for generations now. This is also why democracy is so fucked up. I don't care about that whole "get out and vote" crap. If you can't be bothered learning the issues and voting based on what you actually care about, then stay home and those of us who can be bothered elect the government.
I was reading a survey the other day taken on Bush voters (in the interest of fairness, this isn't restricted to them). There were many issues they thought Shrub was for, that they too were for and cared about. The thing is, it turns out they were issues that are diametrically opposed to what Dubya actually stands for. Seriously, people like this... Stay. At. Home. I don't care if you're an evil conservative or a wonderful liberal, if you can't take the time to learn who stands for what and then vote based on that then don't bother taking the time to go down to the polls and screwing things up for the rest of us.

posted by Tabby at 10/02/2004 02:30:00 p.m.

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