Who did YOU vote for

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by glatt

I don't really understand your reasoning after reading your post, but it sounds like you didn't like the choice offered to you. There are 300 million americans. Surely one of them is qualified in your mind to have the job. You should have written that person in.

Originally Posted by glatt

If you want to send a message that you don't like any of the choices, but would vote for someone good if they presented themselves, then you need to write someone in. That shows you care enough to vote, and are not a slacker. It also shows you don't like the choices.

Not voting is throwing your voice away. At least a write-in will give you some voice.

Voting for someone is indicative of approval of that person. I would not want to send the message that I approve of Bush or Kerry.

If a write in is a voice then show me a list of the write ins for the election. If that voice is truly heard then such a list will exist otherwise it's weeping in the dark.

Originally Posted by glatt

Not voting doesn't send any message at all other than you are a slacker. That may not be the message you want to send, but it's the one you are sending. Most people who don't vote think it doesn't matter, or they don't care, or they can't be bothered, etc. You group yourself with those people if you don't vote, and any protest you may be making is drowned out by the slacker company you keep.

I am not most people. Most people rely on outside faculties for most of their decisions. Any message derived from my actions, other than the result, is merely that persons inability or lack of desire to know the truth.

I am anything but a slacker. I work, I'm in school and I have a family. My ultimate goal is to be an instructor. I'm hoping to break people free from the moribund habits that they have and realize that change is becoming more and more necessary.

Originally Posted by glatt

Who knows, maybe I read you wrong, and you want to be a slacker not a protestor. If that's the case, then you shouldn't vote. But there is nothing to be proud of there.

You have missed the mark severely.

I'm not mad, just disappointed.