Careful what ya wish for.
cheers,
tk
“In 2012, 93 million Americans who could have voted failed to do so. That’s more votes than either presidential candidate received.”
Wow. Lots of Republicans stayed home, for sure.
Unfortunately half of the voters will vote for a DemcoRat.
I votes for da candidate dat gives me cheese and a obamaphone.
Hahahahaha.....
This is a joke, right?
Americans, by and large, don’t do ANYTHING intelligently.
So, the Dem's should stay home?
Politics isn’t rocket science. In fact, it is really quite simple.
The guy who always says, “I vote for the man, not the party” is in fact the real idiot. A statement like that suggests he is very intelligent, makes careful decisions, and reviews all of the facts. Truth is it is utterly clueless.
I have been voting since 1982. I have never missed a single election since. I have always voted the straight GOP ticket in the general election. I have never had a single regret. Not every candidate I have voted for was perfect, far from it in fact. But....
1) There was never one single instance where the Dem candidate was superior to the Republican candidate.
2) There was never one single instance where a third party candidate had any chance to impact an election other than to siphon off votes from the major party candidate.
3) There was never one single instance when it would have been better to stay at home and not vote.
In American politics your choices are very simple and easy. You can:
1) Vote Republican
2) Vote Democrat
3) Vote third party
4) Not vote.
I live in CA. All Democrats here are Marxists. Period. So number #2 is never an option for me. Number #3 and #4 are effectively voting Democrat.
It is very simple. It isn’t complicated. The worst Republican is always better than ANY Democrat, at least here in CA. The only chance I have to realistically advance the conservative cause is in the GOP primary and I do. But I have always voted the straight GOP ticket in the general and have never had a single regret about it.
Haven’t read the book yet.
But I wonder? Is greater voter participation the cure for America’s current political morass?
If corruption in government is one issue, does a majority vote somehow lead to greater ethics or improved values? What about a greater majority of more voters?
If fiscal responsibility is an issue, does inclusion of a broader class of voters somehow imbue the necessary wisdom and discipline? Are these new voters possessed of such virtues themselves?
What about foreign policy? Welfare & Federal benefits? Energy policy? Racial issues? The LGBT/Femanist sexual revolution? Religious freedom?
And is EDUCATING voters the solution? Does intelligent voting somehow cause virtue to triumph over vice? Was Hitler intelligent? Mao or Stalin? Chavez? Sayyed Ali Khamenei or Osama Bin Laden? I always thought Bill Clinton was a SMART guy...
Anyway, I like Ben Carson, and appreciate what he’s trying to do, (this is a lot better than ‘Dreams from my Father’).
But I suspect the American problem is one of values, rather than participation. With a government and press united in opposing Christian values, and many new immigrant voters from anti-Christian societies, its hard to see how America can find her moral compass again. Short of a miracle of God, and a great Christian revival that is.
Unfortunately, more than 50% of Americans don’t even know what the words ‘civic’ and ‘duties’ mean.
Duty?
47 percent of working Americans know they have no duty to pay individual tax.
Tens of millions of illegal immigrant trespassers have no duty to become legal.
Elected representitives have no duty to our constitution or their promises.
A majority of Christians ignore their duty to The Great Commision.
Duty? It died in America in the 1960’s, with so much else.
Who does Beyoncé say I should vote for?
Good luck! That has never been the case throughout history. The only really intelligent vote for President was for the first, George Washington.
The founders were right in wanting only educated owners of property to vote.
LOL. Ha ha ha.
Considering maybe 30% of the population has an IQ under 90, and 80% of the rest are thoroughly indoctrinated by media and public schools, that leaves most of the population unable to vote intelligently.
There is a reason the founding fathers originally only had white male property owners with the right to vote. At the time, that was the best way to ensure that most of the people voting were voting intelligently and knew their civic duty.
remember “As early as 1680, the literacy rate in Massachusetts was 98 percent and in seaports was as high as 99 percent. Among women the percentage was 62 percent for the same general period, according to historian Samuel Eliot Morison.”
ebonic response - whut u be talkin bout u racist crakaz
Alexis de Tocqueville visited the American wilderness of the 1830's, and he described the backwoods citizens of that day in the following manner:
"It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the democratic republic; and such must always be the case, I believe, where the instruction which enlightens the understanding is not separated from the moral education ...." The American citizen, he said, "..will inform you what his rights are and by what means he exercises them .. In the United States, politics are the end and aim of education ... every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is taught, moreover, the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution .... it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon .... It is difficult to imagine the incredible rapidity with which thought circulates in the midst of these deserts [wilderness]. I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists in the most enlightened and populous districts of France." - Tocqueville
Careful what ya wish for.
cheers,
tk
that’s asking a lot out of the general voting population