A vote is a serious thing
Writing by abuhatem on Monday, 16 of June , 2008 at 7:12 am
A vote is a serious thing. Yet this shouldn’t be a reason for you to “get out the vote” as the cliche postmodernists at MTV resonate throughout our television screens every four years. Nay, voting being serious may precisely be a reason why you should not vote.
Just think of it this way. Many candidates for political office hold the following extremist views: the advocation of mass plunder and killing in aggressive wars and nation building, the rejection of the rights of the unborn, corporate welfare while the underclasses get poorer, and entitlement and socialist leaning welfare programs for poor people which steal from the rich.
It is for this reason that I have been strongly opposed to voting in most elections. I do not want to be morally responsible for deaths in unnecessary wars. Perhaps one may make the argument that it is simply the “lesser of two evils” one is voting for, and that one is attempting to limit evil. This is often my argument as well. Yet voting is truly a moral and spiritual dilemma. Does one truly want to give one’s endorsement to a dishonest politican? Very good question…
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