"Leon" wrote in message
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IMHO people don't vote because there is no one that they want to try to
elect. Voting for someone that you don't want in office defeats the
purpose, don't you think?

Plenty of people don't vote for the same reason they don't pay their child
support, don't show up for work on time, don't go back to school so they can
get a better job, don't stop hanging out with their loser buddies from High
School, don't stop spending all their spare money on dope and strip-bars,
don't fix the dripping tap in the bathroom, don't plan for the future and so
on and so forth--because they're losers who don't give a damn for much of
anything but their immediate gratification. Do we seriously expect such
people to take an interest in politics?

There are also people with poor education and little economic opportunity to
speak of who live paycheck to paycheck. They don't vote because their
parents didn't vote and they see no reason to break with tradition, their
life never seems to get any better just because the other party wins office.
Again, by what miracle should we expect these people to suddenly take a keen
interest in civic affairs? And when someone goes into the inner city (or
depressed rural areas) and registers such folks and helps them get to the
polling place then we hear the sort of arguments recently posted here--such
people shouldn't even be allowed to vote because they're not
property-holders--it's enough to make one wonder if we shouldn't sign the
country back to the British Crown.