A non-voter and proud of it, or, Why are people mean to me?

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Originally Posted by Blake

No, you're not required by law to vote. You are however required by civic responsibility to participate in the affairs of the republic. If you don't exercise the most central rights and privileges of citizenship, then functionally, you might as well not be a citizen. A republican form of government doesn't work without the active participation of the citizenry. That's part of the reason the country isn't working very well.

Well ya see. It's statements like this...coupled with statements like this:

Originally Posted by dantonac

If you think Bush is a bad guy to have in office and Kerry(or Nader/Badnarik/whomever) would be less bad then I don't understand why you wouldn't want to vote.

...make no sense to me. Just because one guy is less bad than the other, why vote? It's the principal of it. Less bad does not always mean better...which makes this statement truein a way:

Originally Posted by dantonac

If you think they are all roughly equally bad, just different flavors of the same shit, then I can totally understand not voting.

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This is exactly where I'm coming from. Same shit, different flavours.

Originally Posted by lunachick

So, why don't you vote for the party that is most likely to respect your relationship and may even go as far as civil unions that will recognise property rights and all that kind of thing. And the party that will be more likely to help you in college.

The Democratic candidate has already made it clear that he does not support gay marriage. Even if Kerry/Edwards did support it, it is highly unlikely that the US would ever adopt such a law - I just don't think that it will happen, and probably won't happen during my lifetime. I've come to grips with it. The government won't recognise my marriage, but I can still love Jek. To me, we are married whether the government, my family, or anyone else says otherwise.