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Originally Posted by samcol
Yes. I wish a real conservative (non-neocon) was running. A fiscal conservative who wouldn't make Clinton's budget look conservative. I'll probably just vote libertarian again or not at all. It's really beginning to look like voting doesn't matter to me.
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You need to vote because it's all these people who don't vote that have allowed the parties and the lobbyists to become so strong. They want fewer people to vote so that they can claim the majority wants this or that. And silence at the polls shows noone disputes them.
If more people truly voted in primaries, off year elections and presidential elections, I think we would see government clean up and be more responsive to the people.
To me the people who don't vote and claim it is because they don't like the choices are to blame. If they voted in primaries and for Reps. and Senators, state and local governments that represented their beliefs better change would come.
It's also in being active, getting out there and talking to people and organizing rallies and going to them.
In short, government cannot be responsive to those that do nothing to change things.
In the past people have felt hopeless and that the parties didn't care and until there is massive uprising (peaceful debates, demonstrations, etc) things don't change or regress. When people have had enough the debates, demonstrations and such happen and change comes. (The '60's are a great example, as is the turn of century 1900's).