• Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote

  

  Written by Zeromage 16 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 10, 2008

  It’s the prime of the political season and everyone is going ape-shit over who they’re going to vote for and why. What causes this exaggerated mania? There are many reasons. Everywhere you look in modern mediums of communication, you hear about the presidential election like we are approaching the apocalypse. You are being force fed canards about how important it is to vote and how your vote “counts”. In this brief list, we will go through the reasons why not to vote, and how this over-exaggeration for having to vote is not the God given privilege of being “civically responsible”, but the animal herd trying to express it’s identity in it’s banality.

  5. You’re in a state that always votes the same way.
  
  Why the hell are you going to vote in a state that you know is going to for democratic or republican? If I live in Connecticut, I know how it’s going to vote. If I live in Kentucky, I know how it’s going to vote. Alaska, Massachusetts, Texas, ect. Your vote doesn’t matter because the 95% of the states in the union are out of play. So why are you getting so excited about something you have no impact over? The reason why will be shown later in this list.

  4. There is no REAL difference between the candidates

  When you look at the candidates’ actual policies, there isn’t much of a difference. The main difference between these candidates is their character differences. The nation is in debt, the stock market is in borderline depression, and golden parachutes are flying out with carefully crafted insurance policies made out just for them. These problems all need to be dealt with and they will be dealt with in circumscribed ways. With economics as the main “issue” for the voter, the problem will lie in the expertise of the treasury and federal reserve. Whoever is in office will appropriately follow suite. The differences one sees now are political differences, and for this reason should be disparaged.

  3. You have an imagination beyond an immediate political reality

  If you have a big imagination, chances are you probably have more important things to do than to worry about voting for the president. You probably have your own reading and writing that you do. You have your own friends who go out and have their OWN conversations about their OWN interests. You don’t watch TV slavishly thinking that you’re being informed by equally biased cable news channels like MSNBC and Fox News. Your mind’s in much more transcendental places even if their predictably categorized as “fantasy” by the herd.

  2. You make more of a political impact by not voting, than voting

  Think about it. What would happen if 90% of the population didn’t vote? With the United States standing in the world, this act would be seen as nothing other than an absolute lack of confidence by the US population. It would show that people no longer care about what happens in the beltway because they could take care of their own affairs. The beltway would then have to adapt to the population’s own wants and needs because of the newfound independence of the people. The more people vote, the more people are simply taking part in something they think they believe in, although they consistently tell people they don’t believe in the government because it has failed them. The herd is unaware of their own confusion.

  1. You don’t need politics to give yourself an identity

  You are who you are regardless of the relative issues at hand dealt with by relative people in a relative culture. Why would you identify yourself with this relativity? Because you don’t know any better and are caught up in a presence that you think will have a massive impact for the future, the future of the next 10-20 years, within an estimated universal history of billions of years. Spare the universe your all-to-human pretensions of change and destination and de-identify yourself with any present reality. Real change is that which is absolutely unpredictable and is able to transcend man’s categories of time. Political change is just man playing games with that which he thinks is important, but is simply the lack of a larger understanding of how the universe works.

16 Comments

1. #1 Jay says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 12:37 am

   Oh wow…
2. #2 liftsp says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 1:35 am

   I can’t think of anything more rooted in ‘fantasy’ than politics. What better world of escapism exists? A place where the masses think they are making a difference.
3. #3 TheMountain says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 1:47 am

   Liftsp. Irony or not. You are my new hero.
4. #4 Leo says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 2:02 am

   I don’t complain and therefore have the right not to vote.

   You are right on all accounts though.
5. #5 Alex says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 2:04 am

   stick to video games and comic books, guys.
6. #6 TheMountain says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 4:30 am

   Suck a dick Alex
7. #7 Chris says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   Your wrong on number 1…THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS THE TOP REASON NOT TO VOTE. We could almost all vote for Mcain and then Obama would win if the College demands it, thus all of this has no meaning.
8. #8 Anne Cunningham says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 8:19 pm

   This is a sad commentary on the younger generation. Lack of involvement and cynicism appear to be the hallmark of Generation Y. It is not a certainty that states that typically vote a certain party are bound to that forever and always, as evidenced by Obama’s lead in some traditionally red states. It saddens me to think that any generation would think it makes no difference or could have no impact. I hope I can be afforded the respect of my opinion as it is apparent that some of your readers are totally lacking in the same.
9. #9 DM says:
   March 16th, 2010 at 1:00 am

   Anne, you should read my response to this article in the link above your comment. We had hoped to open the type of dialog you are bringing to the table.
10. #10 craig says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 5:25 am

    Honestly if they want me to vote.
    1 send out printed documents of all their ideas on fixing the economy in plain english. something that you can understand after comming right out of high school.
    2 stop running into a corner and lying just to tell us what you think i want to hear. for instance I’ve moved on from 9/11 I am an atheist. But if the next president is a christian he would not be claiming to continue the war.
    in fact if george w. bush was a true christian he would not have even started the war. thou shalt not kill. to me that means that giving the order to kill is just as bad as doing the killing yourself. actually it’s worse because it means you son’t have the balls to do it yourself.
    but I digress.
    point is stop talking about old news.
    focus on whats happening at home before you worry about what happens abroad.
    by forcing democracy into Iraq we are breaking their right of freedom we never asked any of those people if they wanted any of what we tried to give them. if you want my vote give up the war and beef up security.
11. #11 Mark says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    Absolutely pathetic and ignorant.
12. #12 Henry says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    6. Because you have a (felony) for kicking some road rage nerds ass!
13. #13 Mr. Universe says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    What a dumb idea for a list.
14. #14 gidi says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    wwwwwweeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllll

    there is 1 dif betwen some candidates suck balls to hell and some aculy tell the truth all you gota do is tell with are asses and wich are not