Sorry Long week and I was out early. You are absolutly correct. People in this country sit on their hands way too much. Prime example, the last "historirc" election last year only drew 60 or so percent or about 110 million voters to the polls. In the very countries who were a big part of the campaign rhetoric, Iraq and Afganistan, the percentage was in the high 80's low 90's. Why is it that they get it and here in this country we sit on our hands and complain my 1 vote won't mean anything, so why bother?
The political parties currently in place have a big hand in that. They only want "reliable" voters to go out ot the polls. They pander to the media, putting out stories, true or not, to sway the ones sitting on the fence to stay right there.
People died to obtain and protect every one of the citizens of this country's right to have a freely elected, representative government. The ultimate weapon we have to control our elected officals doesn't cost anything more than a few minutes of your tv or mall time. In the end if the average person can't get of their lazy asses and go and vote, nothing will ever change.
And that is exactly what both parties currently in DC strive for every day. Republicans had 6 years under Bush of controling it all and did nothing to make things better and quite a bit to make things worse. The new administration took the wheel and have stepped on the gas and are trying to use the financial crisis as a diversion to ram things through. No sense in letting a good disater in the making go unused. Stop worring about if they are a d or r. Spend a few minutes a day, especially as we get into next years elections, and look at what the candidate has done as opposed to what he says. And then use your God given, Costitutionally protected right to vote for the right person, not party.
Re: gestapo tactics
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