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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (276863)	9/18/2010 11:33:25 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Voting the D-R party is for suckers.

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (276863)	9/18/2010 1:26:30 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 306849

<<voting is for suckers>> Well, maybe if all you do is vote every 4 years for president and think you're done. Not so in local elections with <10% turnout. And maybe only a sucker thinks he's the only one voting and gets offended that the election didn't go his way. Voting is only the first step if you care about something. Then you go raise hell at meetings and lobby the hell out of the officeholder. Or run for something. And when all else fails, break something. Here's a much more eloquent version: I am afraid I have to strongly object to your call against voting Ted. I don’t know if we need a full scale revolution or not, but whether or not we do, voting won’t hurt anything but not voting can and typically will. I honestly don’t understand why, both on the left and the right as well as anywhere in between, people who are fed up with the system decide not to vote. I always point out to them that their are tons of third parties which actually represent any view left right or otherwise and the response that I always here is “that would be throwing my vote away.” NO, not voting is throwing your vote away. Few more people vote then don’t (recent American turnout hovers ........ rall.com