Bastiaan wrote: . > The older I grow, the better i understand that democracy is not like I . > learned at school... far from it, the less I am voting. . > Voting makes you an accomplice in helping a good system (democracy) . > going to the drain.
Not voting is a guarantee that democracy will go down the drain! I cannot think of an election that I didn't vote in since I was 21. I think that the last presidential election showed the value of *everyone's* vote. Had many of the non-voting eligible voters in Florida voted, the outcome could have been much different, but maybe not better. Had John McCain run for President, he would have won by a landslide. I voted for Ralph Nader as he was, IMO, the only honest person on the ballot. I don't believe that voting for a third-party candidate is a wasted vote, but is a protest against the major party candidates and/or their platforms. Voting for the "lessor of two evils" means that you are voting for some incarnation of evil. Roger Turk Tucson, Aridzona
