Opinion: Are politicians too rich to understand us?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Of course there are those who will tell you that if you don't vote you have no right to complain. I always reply that as long as they don't have a box labeled "None Of The Above" I can complain.

But something in the way you wrote that made me think. If you don't vote you can't complain that it was the other guy's fault. Of course you have it easier as well. No matter who gets elected you get to say "Don't look at me. I didn't vote for him!"

I quote George Carlin entirely too much, but here goes anyway.

I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around; they say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.

So long as no matter who you vote for, it ends up a mess and things never change, that bit from Carlin will hold true. When that is no longer the case, you'll find me voting again.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I quote George Carlin entirely too much, but here goes anyway.

That's a good one!

So long as no matter who you vote for, it ends up a mess and things never change, that bit from Carlin will hold true. When that is no longer the case, you'll find me voting again.

No argument from me. I was just having a laugh myself.

[Ducimus]

Yeah i'm having a "moment" with this thread. Venting my frustration in some incomprehensible form.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Yeah i'm having a "moment" with this thread. Venting my frustration in some incomprehensible form.

I understand.

People have become too invested in party. They become too attached to the keywords of 'liberty', 'freedom' and 'individualism'. They are all to eager to belong; to forget the global definition of these things. They prefer what I like to call the 'NFL experience' of politics. They like to root against the bad guys in a white and black world. They fail to see that when Republicans talk about these things they almost exclusively mean financial matters, and when Democrats talk about these things they almost exclusively mean civic matters. I want both. I want to keep more of my money and I want a gay man to be able to marry his love and be recognized by the state. I consider neither of these to be unreasonable.

The man in the middle seems to be eternally forgotten in the persuit of polemics.