Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:25:07PM +0900, Keith Addison wrote: > > > > But it seems you Americans want Congress or you wouldn't have elected > > them. Or is that a bit naive of me? Whatever, they'll respond to > > enough public pressure, re diesels, ULSD dino-diesel and biodiesel. > > [snip] > I'm certainly not alone in this, most of the people > I know, even the ones > who vote feel pretty hopeless about it.
Indeed. I'm one of them. > And why do you think so few people vote? > Most of the candidates are > mental lightweights -- I mean look at just the last presidential election: > dubbya or > algore? Gag! Indeed. The real problem here is that nobody who would really be worth voting for wants to run for the job. > I voted > for Nader, Ack! Did you read his platform? I did, and I voted Libertarian. > but that's pretty hopeless, and the people I talk to who don't vote say > exactly that -- what's > the point? The point is to get enough people to vote for alternate parties to break the stranglehold that the demicans and the republicrats have had on American politics for the past odd century. It kind of reminds me of those Democrats in the Florida panhandle (central timezone) that heard Gore was winning the rest of Florida (eastern timezone) so they didn't bother to go to their polling places and vote. Oops! > As I always say -- it's not my government. They may steal from my pocket, > I can't > stop that, but they > don't represent me in any way shape or form. At least you vote. To all those people who don't vote I say "If you don't exercise your right to vote then you forfeit your right to complain." Find out what's on the ballot, educate yourself about the issues, and get to your polling place on election day and VOTE! Every election. No excuses. Especially always vote in the _local_ elections, because the local stuff will have a lot more direct effect on your life than the state and federal stuff will. But the local elections always have the _lowest_ turnout. And people wonder why the government is going to the dogs! AP -- Aviation is more than a hobby. It is more than a job. It is more than a career. Aviation is a way of life. A second language for the world: www.esperanto.com Processor cycles are a terrible thing to waste: www.distributed.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/BgmYkB/VovDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
