Actions with Benefits

[scott]

Non-voting has real benefits. Just two off the top of my head:

1. Whenever we slaughter a bunch of (insert nationality) civilians, you can feel true sorrow without the pang of being an accomplice in their murders

2. When trying to comprehend the healthcare debacle, you can know in your heart you had nothing to do with the long process of cartelizing the healthcare industry into the corporatist mess it is today

[winkle]

American elected officials showed a shocking lack of knowledge about
government, history, and basic constitutional principles in a national survey. They scored a failing grade of just 44 percent on a basic test of knowledge of our nation in a quiz by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Average citizens scored 49 percent. Note: many of these people scored less than a random or blind selection of answers — quite an achievement.

H.L. Mencken once said of democracy
democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard

so i guess the only real question is would you rather be screwed by a donkey or a elephant

[justsomeone]

I would rather be an elephant than a jack ass.

[docfeelsgood]

Scott ;

i'll adress this to you .
if not one person voted in a presidential election .
would not a president be elected by the electoral college , who i believe are free and independant of all voters anyway ??

[Jim Williams]

Socialized medicine as practised around the world recognizes we all hold death to be in common. Americans are still so young we capitalize on that same death. It's like profiteers are still waiting to be held in an exception by God. A non-vote is a de facto American vote for profit by death.

[Michael]

Doc, I heard this from a guy in the Canadian Navy. So who knows but it's probably true. After the war between Britian and the U.S.A. in the war treaty that was signed it is suppose to state that should America ever find itself without a president America will revert back to British rule.