On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:00:55 -0500, Richard
wrote:

On 9/2/2014 5:26 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:01:55 -0500,
wrote:

On 9/2/2014 3:06 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

See above. If you don't vote, you don't have anything to complain
about.


I vote every election.

I have a LOT to complain about - specially the last two presidential
elections!!!


You are campaigning had for status quo...

Voter turn out should be considered as part of the vote.

Or give the ballot a "none of these jerks" option.

That option would be for the jerks -- the voters who don't vote for a
person, that is.

I always find it strange to hear people with a conservative bent
disparaging voting, especially when they don't even vote themselves.
It's an issue of civic responsibility, to me. That's what I was taught
and that's what I live by.

Not voting is something I associate with nihilism, which, in turn, I
associate with the extreme left.

You're going to wind up with someone in that office, regardless. If
you don't vote for your choice, even if it's the lesser of two evils,
you're undermining the system that a lot of people have fought and
died for.



You are missing some content.
First line of my reply!
And the next as well.

I caught them. I didn't mean a personal "you." I meant it in the
plural, non-personal sense. I assumed that you vote.

As for having a lot to complain about, that's our national sport. g
I would ask you what you expect but I'm afraid it would start a long
conversation.

I am not campaigning for the status quo. That would be not voting.
THAT gives you the status quo.


The game is rigged, Ed.
Always has been.

It's not rigged. We've just forfeited the game.

--
Ed Huntress


I see no way to straighten it out.