• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote

  

  Written by destructomaximo 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 11, 2008

  A couple of days ago Zeromage released the Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote. In this post, DestructoMaximo responds to that article with the Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote.

  It’s the prime of the political season and everyone is going ape-shit over who their 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.

  This is the most popular answer I hear from people that don’t vote. WAKE UP! If you let the same people vote every year you’re going to see the same results every year. It’s not an uphill battle to induce change in a democracy, it’s one of the few instant gratifications we have! In CT alone, which is a tiny state to begin with, 113,028 2004 registered voters just didn’t vote, forget about those too lazy to even register. The youth (<35) have the lowest voter turn out rate in the nation and WE HAVE THE MOST TO GAIN. You want a viable third party candidate, you want to see a red state turn blue, or do you want your home state to be a battle ground, garnering national attention from politicians every four years? then vote, dummy.

  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.

  We, the people of the Unites States of America, are f-g fed up and cynical. CNN tells you that based on the button you pushed on your phone survey, that the economy is the most pressing issue with voters. Eff-that. Your bank account does not equal the economy, and the majority of voters are not economists. The character differences between the presidential candidates speak volumes about the nation we are going to be living in for the next four years. We have one side that is anti-gun control, incredibly pro-life, in favor of NSA privacy invasion, in favor of breaking international human rights violations in order to torture people into being 9-11 scapegoats, and would increase international hostility toward our nation. We have seen first hand the danger of rolling over and allowing the president to execute their ABUSE of executive power and it’s time to take a stand, YOUR VOICE IS YOUR VOTE!

  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.

  In our nation’s history, there have been several people who have had imaginations that blasted way beyond their current political reality. Our nation’s founders imagined past England to a land where they could worship freely and let every man have a voice. Lincoln and Dr King imagined a world beyond slavery and segregation. I think the phrase “I have a dream” comes to mind. If we used our imaginations to sway our nation toward our own youthful dreams, we could rise up and demand a country that fights for our agenda.

  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.

  This is true. By not voting you would have a much larger impact on the world than if you did vote. You would send a message to the world that we are a failed nation. You would throw a cloak of weakness over our nation that would signal to the rest of the world that we have rolled over and given up. As bad as we might think we have it, we have never fought a modern ground war on our own soil. What if we were taken over, or if we allowed an uprising of fanatics who were the only ones who did vote while we all stood by and watched? Have fun with a state run media. Have fun with your state owned land. Have fun being thrown in jail for a blog entry. We need to stop being a nation spoiled with freedom and re-educate ourselves to strengthen the freedoms we have compromised and gain the freedoms we lack. You can only do that with a vote.

  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.

  Your politics should be a result of your identity, not the other way around. This is why we choose (or create!!!!) a party. Is the health of the planet your bag? Go green. Do you Want to keep your guns and get the feds off of your land? Go Libertarian. Do you think abortion is murder and there’s rampant godlessness in our schools and government? Vote republican. Your identity gives you your politics if you have a mind of your own. Don’t insult your self and humanity by claiming you won’t vote because you don’t want politics to define you. Define your self, then vote accordingly. GO WHIGS!

  Related Posts: Old-Wizard Officially Endorses Gene Amondson For President, Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote

11 Comments

1. #1 Jay says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 1:45 am

   Fuck this article!
2. #2 liftsp says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 3:27 am

   weak
3. #3 KenO says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 4:15 am

   Liked the other article better. Going back on your word with this. Don’t be pussys
4. #4 old-wizard.com says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am

   as most of our readers know, the site is run by two people, so no one is going back on any word. we are merely doing what we always do, starting debates. this time between ourselves.
5. #5 DM says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

   yeah jack-hole. Part of the fun of doing this is getting to debate with eachother. Maybe it hurts too much to be spoon fed conflicting ideas? Sometimes I like to watch Fox News while reading the Huffington, don’t worry, open minds don’t hurt.
6. #6 Bug says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

   Go vote! Just not for McCain…
7. #7 sacwip_flucr says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

   I’m in a Red state. 85% red every time… the fact this year it was 58 to 36 (with 6% losers) was a big ‘win’ even though blue didn’t… close numbers make it more likely people won’t just go pick the same side of the coin every time…

   yeah, people should vote…
8. #8 MaximoDestructo says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:59 am

   You’re an idiot.
9. #9 You are a pussy! says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

   I just stumbled on your top 5 reasons not to vote and was seriously fired up. Finally a website who gets the absurdity of putting faith in people and governments….then I read this completely watered down trash of an article on why you should vote QUOTING THE OTHER ARTICLE! WTF? The other article was a visceral smash of dumbass people who actually think that political participation is important. This article sounds like a queer highschool social studies professor who’s as clueless as his students.

   One of the comments said that this website was run by two people. Please, let the person who wrote the article on why not to vote write everything. The pussy who wrote this article should write for Oprah
10. #10 President Steve says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:20 am

    @You are a pussy!:

    I’m pretty sure the site only has one writer now. I haven’t seen an article by DestructoMaximo in quite awhile. Am I right, Zero?
11. #11 Alberto says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:43 am

    If voting was not important, I’m sure they would not spend that kind of money on getting the drones attention.

    Please the masses live with the classes. Voting gives “legitimacy” to the goverment. The more people or drones who vote the most likelly the electoral college will back them up. Think about it.

    A Guy who won the popular vote, it has more chances of getting back up by the people who voted for him, if that is not enough to overturn the electoral college decision, he has the political power to create a revolution.

    Just think about it.