Comments on: Before You Vote, Get Registered!

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:30:09 +0000

If I register it means I can only vote once… As an illegal I can vote many times? At least that’s what the nice public service lady told me on 311… so why should I register.

By: J Smith

J Smith — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:44:46 +0000

JJ – What makes you think I do nothing? Voting is nothing. Thinking a republic can survive by encouraging people to spend 30 minutes every few years is patently rediculous. Being politically active and running for office is what I’ve done. I speak from experience. It’s all a fraud.

EW – Lack of voting is not how the government became our master. They became our master by scaring us into giving up our freedom for supposed safety. The local TV is 24/7 scary news, and “govt is the hero who saves you” propaganda programs. On the national level, they fund and train terrorists all over the world, then show us the resulting devastation claiming that the terrorist groups are coming for us next. Fear is how they enslave us, and never ending war is the excuse they use to keep us enslaved.

By: Grumpy ole Guy

Grumpy ole Guy — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:19:16 +0000

I am both old and grumpy. I was raised to believe that voting was both a privilege and obligation. Not voting is disrespectful and unpatriotic, according to the mind-set of those who raised me. The youngest of my grandparents, my paternal grandmother was 40 years old before women got the right to vote; she NEVER failed to vote. That is a model for everyone who gives a damn.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:59:46 +0000

@J Smith—-I don’t think any of the rich folks or their puppets care you do not vote, in fact ironically I think you are doing exactly what they want you to do, making you the puppet. Your protest posture of not voting actually empowers the incumbents and supports the status quo you despise. Discover a candidate you can support, or become a candidate yourself, and be active in the system for change.

I sympathize and share your disdain for a system that favors the privileged and connected, but doing nothing (AKA not voting), never brought about meaningful change.

By: Eagle Writer

Eagle Writer — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:49:10 +0000

It is indeed a great day and one for celebration. The very fact that we can register to VOTE should have a smile on all of our faces. And we should pause to thank those who vote and those who defended our right to do so.

In the Constitution of Athens, a quote attributed to Aristotle, “When the people is master of the vote it becomes master of the government.”

It is thus our lack of voting that allows the government to become our master.

J Smith’s conceit that the people are manipulated by corporate media and money can only happen if people like him do not vote.

Scott Walker is a case in point. He was a darling in the early Republican primary, a successful and popular (with the people) governor, with the chops to make things happen. He raised money and had backers.

But Mr. Walker faded on the stage with little ideas and little leadership demonstrated. The people scored him poorly and he shrank in the polls. Money could not prop him up beyond what the people allowed. And when the people withdrew the money followed the people – not the reverse.

By: Mike Tracy

Mike Tracy — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:00:31 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, Dave. I didn’t see it anywhere else at least not yet.

By: J Smith

J Smith — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:05:38 +0000

If more people voted, the outcome would be the same. Statistical sampling needs only a tiny sample to accurately reflect the majority. I’m guessing here, but probably 200 random people could vote and it would be the same as if everyone voted.

The outcome of voting is nearly always manipulated by the corporate media and money that buys signs, ads, and events that bring the candidate attention, funded by rich folks having a fund raising soirée.

Voting offers the illusion of democracy and legitimizes the power of the rich folks puppets. I won’t be a part of it.