Posted on 10/18/2004 3:40:49 PM PDT by Hi Heels
Stone Tells Undecided Voters to Stay Home
Mon Oct 18, 8:07 AM ET Entertainment - AP
SAN FRANCISCO - "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone has a message for all you undecided voters.
"Stay home," said Stone. "It doesn't matter who you're gonna vote for. If you really don't know who you're gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven't really thought about it? Just stay home."
Stone and Trey Parker have teamed up for the puppet parody "Team America: World Police," which debuted in third place at the box office this weekend with $12.3 million. A parody of 1980s action movies, the film ridicules both Democrats and Republicans.
In person, Stone has little patience for those on the political fence.
"If you really don't know or you're just going to vote for George Bush (news - web sites) because he's already in office, or you're gonna vote for John Kerry (news - web sites) because he's on the cover of Rolling Stone, don't do that. That's lame. Just stay home. That's all we ever said," Stone told the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday's editions.
I hear you. (/Texan) :-)
Nothing more thrilling than knowing your informed vote counts just as much as a bused-in drugged-out brain-dead Dem punch.
I think I agree with him. I don't want my vote cancelled out by some idiot who's completely uninformed and votes by flipping a coin.
Go for it.
Well said Matt Stone.
Way too many people think that being an American means living in America...that's not the case.
Being an American means being informed enough to participate in the American system of government, it carries a great deal of responsibilities and duties.
Being an American means being involved in America, so if you haven't taken the time to actually educate yourself sufficiently to have reached a decision at this stage of the game...stay home, don't go "Christmas tree" a ballot.
That's an insult to all who have given their all to make sure you have a ballot at all.
The lazy uninterested non-voter has been around since George Washington was elected. It is part of the way that the system marginalizes the uninformed. The problem we see recently is that the left has become quite successful at motivating this group (Republicans will cut SS, disenfranchise you, intimidate you, etc).
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Ha!
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