Voting
This is the first year I’ve asked Master if I could vote in November. I’m not even registered, but I soon will be.
Not because there is a candidate I want to win– but because there is one I desperately want to vote AGAINST.
I took one of those online political party quizzes to see which candidate I align with the best and came up with this:
They’re all the same. Why bother. Hmmph!
Uncategorized | kaya | 
March 29, 2012 9:56 am
OOOOOhhhhhhh!!!!!
Voting is important and YOU MUST VOTE! Every vote counts, even in the big elections. This is bigger than D/s relationship rules.
Best,
s.
Is confused why the Democratic party doesn’t have anyone running against Obama??
I hate that so much time is spent talking about things like abortion in the debates…ummm hello? it is a moral issue…Not neccessarily a legal issue. The adds the candidates run also drive me crazy..don’t care how bad you think the other guy is…please just tell me what YOU are going to do and how you are going to do it!!
Because each party will have one nomination by the time November rolls around, the party of the incumbent will have him as their nominee, unless he has screwed up spectacularly. And agreed, abortion should be a moral issue – but some politicians believe they can extend their morals into the legal realm.
It’s all a farce, really.
saemus, I understand voting is very important to you but everyone does NOT have to vote. Voting is a choice, not a requirement. Voting may be more important to your than your relationship and the way you live your life, but it is not the top priority for everyone.
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Hi, mag, kaya,…but while voting is a choice, it is how our system works. Can’t take it for granted and you can’t simply ignore it. Most important thing in our system is YOUR voice…(which ever way you choose to use it…)
“Voting is the opiate of the masses.” –Emma Goldman.
I think she’d disagree with you.
*I* disagree with you. My voice is not the one out there making decisions for me. It’s “(insert name)” who is a representative for my district or state, and who doesn’t give two shits about me. Just sayin’.
This is exactly why I vote Third Party in every election I can. Fuck voting for the establishment candidates. Fuck voting against people. Fuck voting for the lesser of two evils. The entire election system is a farce, and the best way I know how to protest it is to stop voting for the two main candidates.
@Lilyanna The reason the Democratic party is not having anyone run against Obama is because he is a Democrat and an incumbent, therefore he automatically gets the Democratic party nomination.
Anyway, I think Sick Rantorum should get his own category: batshit crazy.
LoL about Rantorum, agreed.
Thanks for advising on the Dem party issue!!
Curious – what was the quiz you took? I’d like to have a go at it.
I just don’t want a President named Newt. Ok, so maybe i’m a bit more deep then that..but in the end, I’m still not voting for him. lol
I took this quiz a couple weeks ago when it was making the rounds on FB – I was shocked that I scored the most extreme out of all my friends, something like -7,-7…like way out there. I knew I’d fall in the direction of course, but had no idea I was like waaaay out in left field.
The two-party system confuses the shit out of me. In Sweden, you’d be voting for the Environment Party, Centre party or People’s part, or some such.
Yey Sweden!
(*likes references to where I live*)
But (okey, totally off topic, but I’m gonna say it anyway) the last two elections in Sweden, all the middle-to-right-parties have joined forces, so now the choice is down to two here too. They’ve won the last two elections too, the bastards.
Kaya,
I took a intro to government class at UNicersity, and the professor was quite adamant that the two party system forces candidates towards the center where most voters are, while multiparty systems force candidates to be extremists to stay in their party. I wonder what he’d make of that chart?
Dave
Two Things:
(1) What’s the link for this political party quiz?
(2) I would love to see Ron Paul be the candidate (will never happen, of course). It would liven up the debate. We might even have a real debate .vs. the bs we’re going to have.
And just remember the Chicago mantra: Vote Early and Often
- Don
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Thanks I’m almost dead center in the lower left quadrant – Libertarian Left
I took the test and scored right about Ghandi. It made me giggle. I thought you might get a kick out of that.
inorite? I actually registered to vote for the first time in my life because the candidates scare the crap outta me..
Wow . . . first women get the right to vote, and now slaves too?!? WTF is this world coming to?
just kidding btw – and yes you should vote, it’s an essential right and privilege of citizenship . . .
Well today’s the last day for Q&A. It has been a lot of fun, and informative – thanks.
One final question – in just under the wire… I read that M is seeing a potential 2nd slave. Does that mean his schedule is back to something that resembles normal (i.e. not traveling 30 days a month)?
- Don
Kaya,
My suggestion is don’t bother: your individual vote is not going to change a thing! (See link below for a good explanation on why mathematically your single vote does not matter.)
I think Emma Goldman (a left anarchist, if memory serves) said, ‘if voting changed anything, they’d outlaw it’! In other words, the Establishment (the Pentagon and crony capitalism – not true capitalism – will win).
@ dweaver999: I think your prof would have to eat his words. That graph clearly shows Paul as the centrist candidate, yet, he is despised by both Parties.
http://www.fff.org/comment/ed1200d.asp
I vote because when I don’t I feel like a schlub. I don’t care if my vote “counts” or if other people think I should vote. I vote because *I* feel I should and I am disappointed in myself when I don’t.
Voting may not change anything but then again it might. Even if that change is just making you feel like you put forth an effort for something and tried.
Apathy, however, doesn’t accomplish a damn thing.
@makare
“I vote because when I don’t I feel like a schlub. I don’t care if my vote “counts” or if other people think I should vote”
Hey, don’t take this the wrong way – - seriously – - but that’s the closest explanation of “pissing in the wind” that I’ve read recently……..
If I pissed in the wind because I enjoyed it would that make a difference?
There are some interesting fetishes out there.
It seems to me if you live in a democracy and you don’t vote, then you don’t get to complain about who wins and what they do. If you do vote, it buys you the right to say, this isn’t what I wanted…
Just my 2 cents worth.