Why I think voting is a waste of time, but I do it anyway

Election, election, election, primaries, primaries, primaries, issues, issues, candidates, senators, Obama, Clinton, Giuliani, Romney -- I'm fucking sick of hearing all of this stupid shit. Everybody and the goddamned neighbor's dog is talking about the primary elections, Iowa, New Hampshire, how Hillary Clinton cried, Bill O'Reilly shoving an Obama staffer, Romney's stupid religion -- everybody has just gotten sucked into this vacuum of bullshit and it pisses me off to have to see it.

First off, what the hell makes any of you people think that anything these jokers running for president say is in any way forthright or honest in any way, shape, or form? Just the way our shitty government works means that all any candidate will have to do is sweet-talk people to vote for them on Election Day, and after they rig win the election, any candidate can just throw whatever silly promises they made to the four winds and basically do what they want for the next four years.

I mean, look at the 2006 election. Everybody and their grandmother ousted Republicans from Congress and replaced them with Democrats, hoping the Democrats would clean up the train wreck that Dubya has created in government, and have they been doing that? No! When people clamored for Bush and Cheney to be impeached, Nancy Pelosi, our sad excuse for Speaker of the House, said that "impeachment was off the table". Ending the Iraq war? Forget about it! And Clinton and Obama were off campaigning when, if they actually did give a damn about making things better, they would have been helping that Chris Dodd guy stop that telecom immunity thing from passing, but surprise-surprise, they didn't.

So if the jokers you guys already put into office on the hopes of creating change won't do anything, what the hell makes you think that any candidate put into office in 2008 will?

Second of all, even if there was a candidate who actually did give a fuck about someone other than himself or his/her worthless excuse for a political career, what makes you people think that any election will ever be conducted fairly, if not outright rigged?

I have two reasons to believe that there is no way in hell we'll ever be able to get a fair election regardless of who you're trying to vote for, the most obvious reason -- that all of the candidates are worthless so it doesn't matter anyway -- notwithstanding.

The first and most obvious reason for this is, of course, the Diebold voting machines and how ridiculously easy it is to hack into those fuckers. It doesn't matter if you're a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent or whatever, no matter how an election turns out, it can always be disputed because of the nature of these machines. Even if there was no hacking, you'd still have people bitching about how the election was rigged just because their candidate didn't win. You can't fucking win with these things.

Now that I think about it, it makes me wonder if the Democrats really did win the 2006 elections. Or Bush in 2004. Or if anyone won any election post-2000. And here's another question: do those machines allow write-ins of any kind, or can you only pick between the few jokers on the screen? I'd look it up myself, but fuck it, I'm lazy. :P

My second reason is the fact that Republicans try to keep people from voting just so they can win elections, and apparently, everybody's ok with this. Why aren't the people who do voter caging arrested? Why isn't anyone making examples of these cretins? Why??? How could anyone trust a group or political party, Republican or not, that does something so heinous? What's to stop that from happening this election? If Republicans can apparently get away with this so easily, what will stop anybody else from trying to keep people from voting for whom they don't like?

When you think about it, things just seem so hopeless. Voting in and of itself is a pointless waste of time, and that's really the only legal way any citizen can bring about change in government(as if writing letters to Congressmen who have blatantly refused to listen to people before will help, yeah, sure buddy, tell me another).

But, despite the fact that voting is pointless, I do it anyway, and the reason is simple: I don't want to hear bitching from people who will say "IF YOU DON'T VOTE THEN YOU'RE THE PROBLEM" when you try to tell them how ineffective voting really is and that you don't want to be bothered. I would give the whole speech on how people who choose not to vote aren't to blame and that the problem lies in the way our system has become so corrupted, but damn it all if anybody will listen. So I vote anyway, just to shut them up.

When I go to vote come November, I guess I'll just put on a blindfold and go "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe" to pick who I'm gonna vote for, because that's pretty much how meaningful an election really is these days. Or maybe I'll put a write-in for Bugs Bunny.

And that's it. I guess.


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