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RoyalBlur

I think that a vary sensible, effective and powerful form of protest as a nation of American citizens is simply not to vote. I'm not joking. Permit me to explain my train of thought in regards to this issue.

Up until now, people keep kicking and screaming and saying how they hate the economic, political, moral and spiritual decline in our beloved nation and yet they continue to vote for someone even if they hate that candidate they go on and still vote because they feel as if they just have to VOTE for something. If every single person in the country refused to vote at all in the next election, no primaries, nothing then just think of the change that could be wrought within these United States of America. That would strike hard at the life strings of the rich and the powerful.

We must purvey the promulgation that the climate in which we now live is not a true democracy, it is rather a race between people who are exactly the same monied men with no true desire to represent their constituents; namely, we the people of America.

While true it may be that there isn't actually anything wrong with voting for a person with whom we may disagree with in morals and dogmas the very act of voting for them to guide our country and represent us in congress simply because we deem it our duty to vote each year is fundamentally flawed for that act in and of itself contributes to the ambiance of a nation that is more of a democracy and republic in name only but not in true reality. We must either vote for what we believe in or not vote at all. If they (the candidate who is running for election) wants to take their bickering and own personal interest to our political system doing bills about abortion, alternate lifestyles, evolution, giving money to the rich big wigs while taxing the poor, and exterminating universal health care because they hate each other then government is no longer about serving the people and it becomes nothing more than a monkey court and bizarre circus of hell. It is then that it becomes about using the vote of the people to further their own aims rather than a herald of the American people.

If the elected leaders no longer care about the people and the Constitution to which they have sworn and vowed to serve and protect then I do not see why we should vote for them. To abstain from voting under such corrupted political conditions is indeed patriotic and something in which all citizens of the nation can easily participate in unlike the Wall Street Occupation with which many can not venture to participate in due to their financial difficulties and distance of travel and further more not one humble soul will have leave behind their warm and peaceful hobbit holes.

Of course, if there is a reasonably good candidate that doesn't suck such as Jon Huntsman or Hermain Cain then by all means vote. Just please don't vote for someone even if you disagree with them just because you think you NEED to vote because it is your duty. As the great reformer Martin Luther of Germany said 'Follow Conscience for to go against Conscience is neither right nor safe, I can do no other, God help me'.

And this my friends is just one of the ways in which One Can Be The Change They Wish To See in The World.

Not only recommend I this for my fellow Americans but to all those in any nation whose society is being stilted and railroaded by bad and corrupt political leadership.

Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? Isaiah 42:19

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the_shpydar

No politics here please, it will eventually lead to nothing but flame wars.

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TeeJay

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Noire

I hate change. It jingles in my pockets. The only thing it's good for is surprise Gil Toss-like moves at your enemies.

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shingi_70

MechaPhoenix wrote:

I hate change. It jingles in my pockets. The only thing it's good for is surprise Gil Toss-like moves at your enemies.

How Dare you waste Gil. Some off us don't have the skills to fight monsters for money.

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RoyalBlur

MechaPhoenix wrote:

I hate change. It jingles in my pockets. The only thing it's good for is surprise Gil Toss-like moves at your enemies.

Hahaha! ROFL. That's a good one.

@the_shpydar, this isn't about flame wars. I just wrote out a very civil and hopefully sensible thesis to help others. I was only trying to be helpful and not a pain in the wussie. If anything, I hate flame wars!

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TeeJay

TokyoRed wrote:

@the_shpydar, this isn't about flame wars. I just wrote out a very civil and hopefully sensible thesis to help others.

....in a gaming forum.

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irken004

Unfortunately, every politics-related thread I've seen on here has been locked. Not that I'm a fan of politics anyway.

Decepticons > everything

shingi_70

TeeJay wrote:

TokyoRed wrote:

@the_shpydar, this isn't about flame wars. I just wrote out a very civil and hopefully sensible thesis to help others.

....in a gaming forum.

This is the Off-topic forum in a gaming forum. Political Talk is fair game.

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shingi_70

irken004 wrote:

Unfortunately, every politics-related thread I've seen on here has been locked. Not that I'm a fan of politics anyway.

Decepticons > everything

Pssh Go Cobra Commander or Go Home.

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Wildvine53

If no one voted in the next election nothing would change. Old leaders would remain in office as no one would be elected to replace them.
On a more serious note, I don't know much about politics ,so I can't tell you what we can do to fix our current system.
Also I don't think occupy Wall Street will change anything. They complain about corporate greed and the high cost of living, yet in every news cast I see protestors playing on their iPhones, or marching around in their designer clothes. How can they complain about something they are supporting?

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shingi_70

YellowChocobo wrote:

If we don't vote in Australia, we get a big fine.

I am deeply offended that TokyoRed would suggest people throw their money away.

You want to be the instrument of change? Vote for the communists.

+1

Realistically communism is the only viable method when it comes to instating change were everyone is on equal footing in an economic and political situation.

The only Problem with communism is that its fundamentally flawed due to the Fact that people have a need for more and are never truly content with what we have. That with the fact that the high up's in a communist government still have more political sway and a better economic situation then the "people" makes it redundant.

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Bankai

shingi_70 wrote:

YellowChocobo wrote:

If we don't vote in Australia, we get a big fine.

I am deeply offended that TokyoRed would suggest people throw their money away.

You want to be the instrument of change? Vote for the communists.

+1

Realistically communism is the only viable method when it comes to instating change were everyone is on equal footing in an economic and political situation.

The only Problem with communism is that its fundamentally flawed due to the Fact that people have a need for more and are never truly content with what we have. That with the fact that the high up's in a communist government still have more political sway and a better economic situation then the "people" makes it redundant.

Modern communist parties don't actually aim to introduce communism to the world. They're just the (extreme) far left on the policial spectrum.

Given modern politics leans heavily to the right (in western society), if the communists got power things would change.

Tasuki

I didnt vote last election and look who claims to be our president.

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shingi_70

Tasuki wrote:

I didnt vote last election and look who claims to be our president.

Yeah.......Kind of like how we has a cash surplus when Clinton left office and four years the nation is in the read. .

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the_shpydar

And with the last few posts, the prophecy has been fulfilled; it begins.

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RoyalBlur

Wildvine53 wrote:

...On a more serious note, I don't know much about politics ,so I can't tell you what we can do to fix our current system.
Also I don't think occupy Wall Street will change anything. They complain about corporate greed and the high cost of living, yet in every news cast I see protestors playing on their iPhones, or marching around in their designer clothes. How can they complain about something they are supporting?

With this statement I highly agree.

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k8sMum

@tokyored: your agenda may not be everyone's...hence the need to vote. those whom you see as 'reasonable' do not fit the title for all...hence the need to vote.

the system is flawed, to be sure; but the only tool we have is the right to vote.

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