my big god damned opinion
Nov. 5th, 2002 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transmothrathis is not in any way directed toward anyone in particular.
but i have to say it.
i have no respect whatsoever, at least in the global, important-for-all, social/idealogical/political sense, for people who don't vote. just because you don't like the choices doesn't mean that there isn't one that is less crappy than the others. and there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not having an idea of what you're voting on, when there are brilliant websites out there such as vote-smart and smart voter. not to mention your local independent free weekly newsmagazine (every major city has at least one) always has good coverage, even if your major daily newspapers are bought and paid for.
Frank Zappa once said (not a direct quote) that if you don't exercise your Democracy by voting, making your voice heard, then you plain and simply don't deserve to bitch and moan about things.
so vote already, or don't you ever open your fuckin' mouth about The Way Things Are in America, when you didn't get up off your lazy goddamned ass to try and effect a difference.
people with good excuses are exempted. (i do NOT consider my own sorry-assed excuse during the 2000 prez elexins to be valid, since it boiled down to my own ineptitude.) people who make a real difference in other ways, or strive to do so, are not exempted, but they at least earn big points to help make up for it. and by this, i don't mean posting messages on the internet, or talking with friends about things. only a fucktard would believe that actually helps. i mean GETTING OUT THERE and DOING IT. making people listen, or at least loudly making your voice heard in the streets.
so if you want me to have any modicum of [political] respect for you, and you simply did not choose to exercise Democracy by voting, then get out there and do it in the streets. i mean it. literally! what the hell! go and fuck in the streets! go wild! do something REAL to cause people to think. just do SOMEthing, for chrissakes.
but i have to say it.
i have no respect whatsoever, at least in the global, important-for-all, social/idealogical/political sense, for people who don't vote. just because you don't like the choices doesn't mean that there isn't one that is less crappy than the others. and there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not having an idea of what you're voting on, when there are brilliant websites out there such as vote-smart and smart voter. not to mention your local independent free weekly newsmagazine (every major city has at least one) always has good coverage, even if your major daily newspapers are bought and paid for.
Frank Zappa once said (not a direct quote) that if you don't exercise your Democracy by voting, making your voice heard, then you plain and simply don't deserve to bitch and moan about things.
so vote already, or don't you ever open your fuckin' mouth about The Way Things Are in America, when you didn't get up off your lazy goddamned ass to try and effect a difference.
people with good excuses are exempted. (i do NOT consider my own sorry-assed excuse during the 2000 prez elexins to be valid, since it boiled down to my own ineptitude.) people who make a real difference in other ways, or strive to do so, are not exempted, but they at least earn big points to help make up for it. and by this, i don't mean posting messages on the internet, or talking with friends about things. only a fucktard would believe that actually helps. i mean GETTING OUT THERE and DOING IT. making people listen, or at least loudly making your voice heard in the streets.
so if you want me to have any modicum of [political] respect for you, and you simply did not choose to exercise Democracy by voting, then get out there and do it in the streets. i mean it. literally! what the hell! go and fuck in the streets! go wild! do something REAL to cause people to think. just do SOMEthing, for chrissakes.
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