I Voted

[Greg]

Actually no I didn't and never have.  Is anyone else a non-voter like me?
Just curious.  My reasons for not voting are best summed up by Alvin Toffler and George Carlin.
I'm not saying you're wrong for voting.  I just choose not to.

[Paperback Writer]

I enthusiastically vote when there is a positive choice AND sit out - when there is not,  Sometimes I protest and write in a famous funny name.

 As Macca would begin to say:

"Back in the 60's...." there was a popular bumper sticker that said  - "WHY VOTE - IT ONLY ENCOURAGES THEM!"

 

[chris]

sure i vote. because...i care. if i did not, i wouldn't. but i genuinely believe that you should vote for the candidate...and not the party. i belong to a party (my tailor says i tend to lean to the left...cough) but i have voted the other way when i thought it was the smarter thing to do. lots of people think it makes no difference. but the older i get, the more i care. so i do what i can to be heard...in my own small way.

[Paperback Writer]

I hope you speak for yourself, Chris, because it is possible for two things to be true at the same time -

1.One can care. 2. One can choose not to vote because they don't feel there is a choice/difference or worthy individual or "party" position.

I'm sure you did not imply to mean that all persons who choose not to vote are un-caring. 

[Greg]

I volunteer in my community, pay thousands in taxes, donate to charities, try live as eco-friendly life as I can here in America, etc.  It is just too long to go into why I don't vote, and that's why I deferred to Toffler.  It's an endless debate of finger-pointing.

It's funny but Paperback raises an issue that if often overlooked;  people with differing viewpoints will often share very similar thoughts on the issue.

(I think Paul said he wasn't voting in the last British elections, but he and I might change our minds next year.  I'll call him.)

...10 minutes later...laughing.  It took me ten minutes to figure out the "tailor" comment Chris.  I'm like, "He's got a tailor?  And what does that have to do with anything?"

[chris]

I would be the last person to speak for the masses. I'm really only marginally qualified to speak for myself.

[Kylenz]

It is a fact that the concept of democracy is actually an illusion, designed to give the people the 'impression' they have some degree of power with their vote - but in reality they have none. The late great film director Aaron Russo discusses this in an interview with Alex Jones, you can find it on YouTube.

We all know this inside ourselves, when we look deep in our hearts and are honest with ourselves. If you watch the Alex Jones documentary 'The Obama Deception', he explains the situation perfectly. Why is it, that regardless of the party voted into power, that the overall agenda never changes, that people become dissatisfied and eventually vote them out? The reason is perfectly outlined in 'The Obama Deception' - the same people behind Bush are exactly the same people behind Obama - that is, they are from the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations (the CFR). It is a fact, you can check this for yourself. The President is merely the poster boy for a hidden agenda. Most people know this in their hearts yet are afraid to admit it, as the media encourages the whole partisan left-vs-right thing. It's all phony, it's a scam.

Personally, every time I've voted, I've always felt like it never mattered and my heart wasn't in it. I've voted for alll kinds of parties and different representatives from all colours of the (phony) spectrum.

Not many people know that the instigators of modern capitalism - the Rothschilds - funded Karl Marx and the ideology of communism. The things we aren't taught in our history classes - no wonder many of us are too dumbed down and drugged out by tv and mainstream media to care. Yet deep in our hearts, we know there's something not right. At my workplace, many of us have been pulling out of our union. People are waking up and realising the system is phony and not always acting in our best interests.

Well that's my opinion. I know that if this was posted at 'the other forum', I would be personally ridiculed by the site admin for shattering his safe picket fence worldview, but I'm glad here we are mature enough to freely express our differing views. 

[Greg]

I just watched the movie Kylenz posted.  A very relevant movie.  Kylenz...thanks.

[Kylenz]

Thanks Greg. It's good stuff. I've just seen another Alex Jones interview on RT and he totally outlined the truth of the Norway killer not being fully told. Talking about how this man was not acting alone, that he was part of a wider (masonic) agenda to cause a clash of civilisations as described by Albert Pike back in the 1870s.