Mathematically, materially, and literally FALSE.
Even when you vote "against" a ballot proposition, mathematically/materially/literally, you are voting FOR nixing it. Voting "against" is one hundred percent illusion, imaginary, wishful thinking. Voting "against" is like "killing time" -- solely an EXPRESSION of intent, and VOID of action.
Hold your nose if you have to... which is exactly what you have to do when you eat crap. Your nose is WARNING YOU. You ignore it at your peril. In 2012, you voted FOR a pro-abortion, pro-nationalized-health-care, pro-gun control, pro-homosexual agenda, pro environmentalist president.
You voted for all those things because you were holding your nose so tight that you didn't smell the crap you were trying to force on ME. Thank God Romney lost, because YOU would be responsible for all the leftist socialist crap he'd be advocating because you voted FOR all that crap.
Dammit, Rooster and all the rest of you who insist on equating intention (voting "against") with action (voting for a politician who advocates for wrong things), stop being such intellectual cowards that you refuse to be accountable for your actions and whining that you intend to vote "against" unicorns and tooth fairies -- voting "against" is fantasy, mathematically, literally, AND materially.
OWN WHAT YOU VOTE FOR or stay home.
Imagine there is a battle this afternoon and your clan is threatened by an enemy who might defeat and annihilate your entire clan which includes your family and all your distant cousins.
Unfortunately, the guy who is leading your clan is a cousin you hate.
He is nothing like you. He is a scumbag in the eyes of your family.
What do you do?
Do you stay home with your direct family...or do you go out into the field of battle with your clan?
In my eyes, we need to keep our eyes on the bigger picture.
If we save the clan, we save our family.
We can then regroup and get rid of our jackass cousin later.
Of course, please tell me where I am wrong?
Great post.
You know, if you vote for Trump you might as well vote for Hillary or Bernie or Uncle Joe. The man is telling us STRAIGHT OUT that he is a Democrat.
And conservatives STILL refuse to hear it.