I've got an accuaintance that loves to ramble on about politics, or what she heard on Fox News last night. She has admitted that she never votes because she thinks her vote won't count, etc.... I finally said I can't listen to it any longer!! Do you feel if someone waives their right to vote they aren't allowed to hold a political opinion? Or, at the very least to not discuss it with you, being a moot point....?
2007-10-13 12:47:09 · 14 answers · asked by bijou 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
EDIT: Swan- you ARE crazy. Since you don't vote, I really don't care what you have to say about it! LOL!!! Ohhh boy, do I love the 'spelling police', get a life shrub.
2007-10-13 13:12:50 · update #1
EDIT2: ROFL Grump, I think I've met your ftaher-in-law.......!
2007-10-13 13:23:40 · update #2
Edit3!!!! WHOOOPS! MORE spelling....LMAO!!!
'father-in-law'
does that satisfy????????????? lol
2007-10-13 13:24:42 · update #3
EDIT: Thanks for your honesty Open! You HAVE opened my eyes a bit too, btw. I would discuss politics with YOU, because you DO seem to be well informed, and not eating off the 'propoganda machine' on a daily basis......and no, we don't have to agree on everything, that would be boring! diversity is the spice of life! i still like you too *wink* *wink* !
2007-10-14 09:04:53 · update #4
My husband won't vote using the same excuse as your friend. While I will have discussions with him about politics I will not allow him to whine and complain about laws that have passed and people that have been elected since he didn't bother to be involved in the process. He is simply told that if he doesn't like how things are then he needs to get his @ss to the voting booth instead of sitting around crying.
2007-10-13 12:56:56 · answer #1 · answered by sparkydog_1372 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I on no account have political discussions in common terms for the sake of "changing" them. I do, even nonetheless, go with to have discussions just to hearken to what the different side has to assert and to coach myself on all human beings's stance. i don't have self belief in attempting to impact individuals's votes except i rather am noticeably knowledgeable on the two between the applicants' standpoints, which i'm no longer.
2016-12-14 16:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't vote. Never have. Never will. Politicians are born liers. You have to be a certain type of human being to be a politician and that type of person disgusts the crap out of me. They rate with the nonces in my opinion, the worst of the worst. I talk about politics more than anyone I know. Most of the people I know who vote don't even think about it. They are just sheep. The trundle off down the voting booth, do whatever they have to do and go home and don't think about it for another year. Democracy is an illusion. Your vote doesn't count for anything. Just because these people scribble on a piece of paper their allegiance to one corrupt politician or another doesn't give them more right to discuss politics than someone who refuses to vote. I'm sorry Bij I think your class but we can't agree on everything now can we. :)
2007-10-14 07:31:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
id talk with them for a few minutes and then move on but
Way back in 1845 in the U.S. Congress, Texas became a state by one vote. In 1923, one vote in the German Parliament gave Hitler leadership of the Nazi Party.
A shift of less than one vote per precinct in a handful of states would have defeated Woodrow Wilson in his bid for re-election in 1916. A few votes per precinct in Illinois and a couple of other states and then Vice President Richard Nixon would have defeated John F. Kennedy in 1960. The same is true in elections at every level. In 1974, Congressman Louis Wyman was declared the victor in the U.S. senate race in New Hampshire, after a recount, by just two votes. If only a few additional people in each precinct in Ohio had voted differently in the 1976 presidential election, Mr. Ford would have been our president, not Mr. Carter. Around the same time, the Governor of Ohio beat out challenging candidate by a margin of one vote per precinct.
Yes, your one vote counts, and you can also influence many other votes!
2007-10-13 13:39:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Whether one chooses to vote or not doesn't mean that they can't have an opinion but, it also doesn't mean that you have to listen to her, provided you do vote & are offended by her discourse on matters that she is not willing to help change. Guess I would just tell her that if we all felt the way she does, that our votes don't count; we could go back to having a King & our ancestors had died for nothing!
2007-10-13 12:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by geegee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How ridiculous! Look having the right to vote doesn't mean forced to vote. Besides I have a postal vote now but if I couldn't decide on a candidate as I did not think their views were close enough to the criteria of what I considered to be necessary then I wouldn't vote. Your attitude is definitely out of the context of free will, or democracy. People are entitled to a political or any other opinion as long as it is not racist or harmful to others. I think you were totally unjustified and rude in your attitude to your acquaintance and after you learn to spell the word you should go and apologise to her.
2007-10-13 13:05:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I might discuss it with her but I probably wouldn't waste a lot of my time on her. People who don't vote are not politically active and their opinions don't matter that much.
An exception would be a person who doesn't vote because he or she can't vote. Not a citizen or under age, but politically aware.
That's a different category.
2007-10-14 21:00:45 · answer #7 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I tell people that if they don't vote they can't *****! We all love to *****, don't we?
I tell people that it doesn't even really matter who they vote for, so long as, if their candidate wins, they stick around and see how their candidate performs on his promises. If more people did that, no matter WHO they voted for, I think we'd be a long way towards solving some of our problems in this country.
2007-10-13 13:14:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, isn't "not voting" a political opinion? I think you're wrong there. She is entitled to talk politics through her elbows, for all I care, just like every liberal or neocon.
2007-10-13 12:55:48 · answer #9 · answered by Zoe S. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is allowed to have an opinion & voice it. Those of us who vote have guaranteed them that right. By the same token, those of us who have voted have guaranteed you the right to tell her that you have no intention of discussing politics with someone who doesn't vote.
2007-10-13 12:54:47 · answer #10 · answered by kokochin01 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋