Call me old-fashioned if you'd like but I like to keep my political (and religious) views to myself unless someone brings about a discussion where I feel compelled to participate. I don't like to advertise who I am voting for because why should I? When you vote you go in your cubby anyways so that it can be done anonymously. I just find it really annoying to see celebrities whoring themselves for candidates. Congrats on being passionate about someone you think will do swell at leading the country but don't belittle the opponent, otherwise you're turning into a politician yourself. Hearing you blather on about why so and so is going to be sooo great for this country is bullshit. No matter who is elected nothing will get better (if it does it will be marginal). Here's what to remember for election day, who will fuck up our country less? No one is going to make our economy better over night, the housing/mortgage problem won't go away with the snap of your fingers and other countries will continue to hate us.
I really hate election years, well the two-year period before presidential ones because it drags on forever. And everyone acts like children. Presidential campaigns are like junior high/high school elections. Lots of empty promises. They say this and that so that you will vote for them but they don't do a damn thing they promise. And all these stupid attack commercials that are released two seconds after they say something the other doesn't like. Maybe they should fight like grown ups and quit with the attack ads. Have the balls to say it to their face and not through your campaign manager who spends minutes furiously making the clips in the back of a bus.
Why do we still have a two-party democracy? I think most people aren't strictly left or right. I know I'm not, and why would I blindly follow the political party that I'm affiliated with? I'm not a puppet and just because you vote for this or that means I will. I can and will think for myself. Don't think that I will follow my party with everything they do. It doesn't work that way.
Good to know that politicians aren't underestimating the general public that will be responsibly for electing the next president.
Side note: I have been registered to vote since I was 17 (they get you early in San Berdo County) and I have only missed one election since then.
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I registered to vote this year.
ReplyDeleteAnd once again I'll miss election day.
You can still vote if you are out of the country.
ReplyDeleteOh I know but I would have to go to the embassy. That's roughly 2 hours away. I don't think I could travel 4 hours to vote for a person I don't even want to see in office. I don't think neither one is great enough for me to travel that distance. However, if I asked for an absentee ballot I'll ask my mom to mail it to me and I'll mail it back.
ReplyDeleteI vote by absentee now. F*ck standing in line for up to an hour to vote. The registar's office is pretty close to my work so I drop it off there. I'm not wasting a stamp on an election.
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