From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 09:16:45 MST
EvMick@aol.com writes:
>Consider the meme.
>"If you don't vote ...you don't care"...
>However...there are no real choices. A Republican votes just like a
Democrat
>after being elected (with various and sundry excuses as to why).
>So...to vote is to validate the system. NOT voting does not.
>Comments?
I've been struggling with this question for years. I vacillate between the
"voting as validation of the system" position and the equally compelling
idea that voting can be a means of turning the system against itself. I
wish I could make up my mind on this. Maybe it depends on whether a real
alternative is available on the ballot.
Generating theories is easy; applying them in the real world is all too
often a messy affair.
Dick
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