I find it heartening that so many people who are unable to see the differences between Republicans and Democrats are not interested in voting. Seriously, Bush/Kerry: the lesser of two evils? That is a complete misapplication of the word "evil", as neither of those men even approach being evil. Voting is about looking at the ideological positions of two opposing candidates and deciding which platform is most appealing to you. I hear complaints in these forums on occasion about how we must choose between professional politicians in most elections. But who would you prefer to run: some naive outsider who would leave the whitehouse after four years with a broken heart and a record of failures? I'm looking for a leader with the prior experience that assures that he/she has a realistic understanding of the political process.
I also take great pride in doing what I can to get the right people elected to office. Voting is an important part of, but not the only component of, that effort. I will close by urging you all to continue to not vote: it makes every ballot I cast more powerful. 
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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