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Wes Mantooth · 01-18-2010, 02:54 PM

I've always been of the belief that its a terrible idea to encourage as many people to vote as possible. Some people are just so grossly uninformed on the issues that not only are they screwing up the vote for everybody else but probably voting against their own best interests as well. Educating the voters would be awesome and I wholeheartedly support doing so, however so much misinformation is passed around beforehand that I believe its nearly impossible to do.

It would seem no matter what you do propaganda passed around by talking heads and political leaders will almost always defeat rational thought. They pray on our basic emotions and whip the voter base into such a frenzy that it closes them off to anything the other side has to say. In the end a seething mob of voters crowd into the polls full of so much piss and vinegar the question itself almost doesn't matter, they just want to win.

I'd never dream of taking away somebodies right to a vote but I wish we'd knock off the "get out and vote" campaigns and start encouraging people to stay home if they haven't taken the time to educate themselves on the issues before hand.

01-18-2010, 02:54 PM	#89 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	I've always been of the belief that its a terrible idea to encourage as many people to vote as possible. Some people are just so grossly uninformed on the issues that not only are they screwing up the vote for everybody else but probably voting against their own best interests as well. Educating the voters would be awesome and I wholeheartedly support doing so, however so much misinformation is passed around beforehand that I believe its nearly impossible to do. It would seem no matter what you do propaganda passed around by talking heads and political leaders will almost always defeat rational thought. They pray on our basic emotions and whip the voter base into such a frenzy that it closes them off to anything the other side has to say. In the end a seething mob of voters crowd into the polls full of so much piss and vinegar the question itself almost doesn't matter, they just want to win. I'd never dream of taking away somebodies right to a vote but I wish we'd knock off the "get out and vote" campaigns and start encouraging people to stay home if they haven't taken the time to educate themselves on the issues before hand. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”