why vote in the USA?

Question

why should ne1 in the US vote? do politicians really want what's best for the people or what is best for them?

Answer 1

Vote for the third party candidates... of course they may have an agenda that is radically different... yes it may cause disruption in our economy and way of life... but isn't that what the majority of the people want... a new way of living.. tired of the politics as usual.... then if everyone voted for the people that do not solicit funds to pay for what is according to the television commentators a 500,000,000 dollar campaign season and voted for the 3rd party candidates with almost no political liability to any special interest then maybe things could change

BUT to vote for a paid for advertisement Republican or Democrat is to buy into the pre-paid idea of government that business has and special interest take presidency in order to shape an agenda that allows the Constitution to just get trampled all to hell by partisan politicians trying to secure the rewards for the contributors instead of the people who cast their votes

THAT IS A WASTED VOTE... and a waste ot time

I vote Libertarian

Answer 2

If no one voted, If there weren't elections, it would be brutal, polititians would fight for the power, civil wars could be the out come. Dictatorships could run the country, and to stop that from happening, all you have to do is VOTE.
At the end there's only one answer I can give you, BECAUSE YOU CAN, because your opinion has value. And if you're someone that doesn't know much about politics and thinks there's no point on voting if you don't know what you're voting for, then you should do research on the candidates and pic the one you think will bring the most benefits to the country and most importantly, to the people.
If you're someone like me, depressed on the results on elections, don't let it get to you and vote anyway, just because things don't go your way at the end, doesn't mean you can't try to make it the way you consider best.
Don't leave it to others to make the choice for you.
And also, if you don't , you don't have the right to complain.

Answer 3

You sound like you may be young, and a sincere whoo-hoo for that. I truly think that most politicians are dedicated to the American dream, documented by the Constitution. Unfortunately, some are only dedicated to their own advantage, and that is why you must vote!The only way to insure our Constitution, which is the American dream, is through voting for the politician, be it city, county, state, or federal, for the person(s) you feel will represent your ideas on each and every issue to achieve that reality. You are the future, my friend, get involved now, think about where you want our great nation to go for your children, don't be an adversary, be pro-active. Ask, read, learn...our children, your children, and their children are the future. I think you asked a great question and ignore those that wish to immediately bash you for that!

Answer 4

1. Because we can. There are countries all over the world where people would love to be able to vote and at least have a voice in who leads them even if their guy/gal loses. It's pathetic the number of people in the USofA that don't vote. What ever else is wrong in Afghanistan and Iraq I'm proud of them for actually going to vote with the threat of death hanging over their heads. Both places have over 80% of registered voters who voted. Here we are lucky if we get 60% during a presidential election.

2. It's the only time every two years we can actually tell some politician who is more interested in getting elected or re-elected than what is best for the country to get out.

3. Would you rather have a bloody coup? Would you like to have the kind of things that went on in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Taliban and Saddam go on and you and your firends have to evict them by force? Would you like to have who ever is in power take you out and shoot you if your side failed?

You ask why vote? I ask you --Give me one GOOD reason why you shouldn't vote. You don't like the politicians that are running? You don't like their broken promises? You don't like politicians who pander to 'special interests'? Get someone you do like to run. Better yet run yourself.

Answer 5

Voting is part of being an American. You don't have to vote, but if you don't vote you can't complain who comes into office. I do agree that all politicians really want whats best for them because they are all crooks, no matter how you look at it.

Answer 6

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election. - George Carlin


Since 1964, right after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, vote tabulation for national elections has been handled not by the government, but by a private company lacking any official oversight at all. This company, which changes its name on a regular basis, is currently called "Voters News Service" and is located in New York City. This company is owned by a consortium of TV networks and wire services, which are in turn controlled by the CIA through its Operation MOCKINGBIRD. The TV networks will make a great show of being "first with the election results", but in reality all of them rely on the numbers sent to them by VNS, while seldom acknowledging its existence during the election coverage.
Mandatory voter registration laws, such as "Motor voter" have been a boon to election fraud, generating registered voters who don't vote and whose names may be used to obtain absentee ballots. In the California election that unseated Bob Dornan following his efforts to investigate the Clinton White House, canvassers discovered that nearly half of the names registered to vote in the GOP election from 7 precincts simply did not exist. The California Attorney General's office was informed by the precinct worker, but again nothing was done. In 1998, almost 20,000 fraudulent voter registrations were discovered on the voting rolls, but were allowed to remain on the excuse that their removal in time for the election would cost too much!

Voting is pointless people. Wise up! We've been lied to about so much that now we just play the game and smile.

Answer 7

I vote interior the US. i'm so sorry to take heed to approximately Australia. I regarded it up via fact of your question, and that i could no longer have faith it, yet NOW I DO!!! Dang. i'm so sorry ya'll get fined for no longer balloting. are you able to look and register a vote of "No superb Candidate or No superb determination" in balloting, like we do right here on Yahoo solutions? there is an upside to absolutely everyone being required to vote, in which you're plenty greater possibly to get greater human beings's responses....yet at what value?

Answer 8

If you don't really know the issues and facts... stay home... It's the people that want support from the government that the greedy politicians pander to.... they should not vote.

Answer 9

Only if we want any say-so in how our government is run. Now i understand that we are not a completely democratic society. However, SOME say-so is better than none. We in the US vote because if we didn't believe in that, we'd just move to vietnam, china, or any other communistic countries.

Answer 10

To make sure that Americans have someone that will
represent them and their districts and the politicians
ARE the ones that WILL DO what's best for the people!!!!!!!