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What I reckon to hardly believe is that most who say they wouldn't sell their right to vote equate it with their voice and the ultimate power to change and put forth good into the world. That is not how it is. Your vote is worth as much the stock you put into it, and considering you have a limited choice in the matter, it is not worth much at all. You can extol as much as you want, but the reality is that your vote is the voice of another. Individual votes and the collective are placed in the trust of a single constituent, who may or may not hold the same views as you as might have been initially led to believe. Take Bush, Congress, the UN, any and all leaders, past, present future; a majority of them were issued their power by the majority, who in turn sought to overlook the minorities in an effort to bolster the majority again. Votes don't count if they do not seek to make change.
As a former US Supreme Court Judge once notioned: “If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.”
Becoming comfortable and unaware is the folly of many societies, and will be the downfall of most democratic nations that cannot freely be allowed to have their voices heard. You may believe by going out to vote, well that is your trump right there, but if you cannot be reasoned with to see that the little good you have done is propagate the erroneous system by conforming to your right to your "one free vote", then you have every right to keep it.
Beware though, when it becomes your only fallback.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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