Creeva’s World 2.0

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While the first thing I could say about why I’m not vot­ing for pres­i­dent would be easy.   It’s the excuse I’ve used for years, I think the elec­toral col­lege has co-opted the ideal of a true democ­racy.   We’ve been able to rise to the point with tech­nolo­gies and com­mu­ni­ca­tions that one per­son equals one vote can actu­ally mean some­thing in this coun­try.   While we do have a rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment this by no means equates to a need to a rep­re­sen­ta­tive vot­ing across the board.   Once the elec­toral col­lege is abol­ished in his cur­rent state, and it becomes just an agency that over­seas the elec­tion results and ver­i­fies them — then we can free and open elec­tions that can actu­ally give power to the peo­ple.   Cur­rently in a mul­ti­tude of sce­nar­ios your vote doesn’t mat­ter.   Are you a repub­li­can in a 90% demo­c­rat vot­ing dis­trict — sorry your vote doesn’t count out­side of the dis­trict.  Your a demo­c­rat in a repub­li­can dis­trict?  Same sorry luck for you.  One vote for over per­son should mean something.

The sec­ond rea­son I could say is that nei­ther can­di­dates that I wanted received their nom­i­na­tions.   Yes I sup­ported one from each party and at this point who they were doesn’t mat­ter (Ron Paul and Den­nis Kucinich), since I won’t get a chance to vote for either of them, I may be reg­is­tered as a repub­li­can but I would vote for who­ever holds my clos­est ideals.   Unfor­tu­nately the ones I wanted aren’t com­ing along for the ride.

The real rea­son?  Well we com­pound the first two rea­sons and come up with another.   I don’t like any of the can­di­dates.  Some peo­ple would say since I’m not going to vote that I don’t have a say.  That I can’t com­plain about who wins.   I call bull on that.   I have every right to my opin­ion and will voice it.   I don’t think I should be forced to decide who I hate the least to run the coun­try to be a good cit­i­zens.  If your can­di­dates gives you some­thing you can iden­tify with and some­thing you can believe in — I con­grat­u­late you and encour­age you to vote.   My non vote is my own way of express­ing my opin­ion — I encour­age you not to vote also if you feel you are choos­ing between the lesser of two evils instead of the greater of two goods (which is how it should be).