
Originally Posted by
freshstart
that is a saying used in medicine, if you really think about it, it applies to a lot IRL. Agreed on the rest of your post, as well.
I consider voting to be a privilege and it's your responsibility to inform yourself and use your vote wisely. If you don't vote, don't bitch and moan if someone horrible becomes President or member of Congress. Those stats on liberal leaning people who no longer vote, they just gave up, are scary. If enough come out and vote, change can happen. If we did the ethical thing of making voting easier, more impoverished and sick people would have the opportunity, if ballots accommodated citizens with ESL, more would vote, etc. I mean this for all voters, but I'm partial to the left, lol.
Women didn't even have the right to vote 100 yrs ago, 50 years after black people got the vote. If suffragettes fought for 50 YEARS during a time when it was not easy for women to speak out, the very least I can do is vote. People die keeping this country free, if they are willing to do that, then I guess I can find 15 mins to vote, even if I am just choosing between the lesser of two evils, and I acknowledge this is often the case. And if you want bad asses, like the notorious RBG, to be Supreme Court Justice, well, that's initiated by the President and confirmed by your senators. I may sound totally naive, that's fine.
Angler I am surprised that you don't vote, you seem to care very much about many issues. How can they be advanced if you don't vote? It's none of my business, but it does surprise me.