Acts as an admission that your democracy has failed.
Tu quoque fallacy is the best you got? How disappointing. You showed signs of being better than that.Has it?
Maybe, I think in has failed in the U.S. considering how politicians are bought.
It is a right. If you are too stupid to act on it, that is your right too. I would rather the uninformed don't vote than vote randomly or for a Lieberal.
Why would they vote Liberal?
It could go any way.
Getting people to care is the problem.
We all clearly care on this site, left, right.....doesn't matter. We care.
It matters....we need to find ways to restore democracy.
I get what you are saying. Democracy is supported by the will of the people, the only will the people have is to complain about the government.Acts as an admission that your democracy has failed.
When you start legislating duty, it's a pretty good sign your society is on the road to ruin.I get what you are saying. Democracy is supported by the will of the people, the only will the people have is to complain about the government.
To me it should be a duty to vote.
Totally agreeWhen you start legislating duty, it's a pretty good sign your society is on the road to ruin.
I joined the service for a lot of reasons: a job, educational benefits, travel, getting the hell out of Oklahoma. But there was also a sense of duty in the mix. It's complicated, but there was a duty to the warrior ethos of the Shawnees, to America, and a few other factors. I don't talk about it much.
Point is I felt that duty. By contrast, our posters who yell most loudly for war on Muslims or Russians or whoever has them scared this week somehow never felt that duty. But I have not the first doubt they count themselves better citizens and more patriotic than me.
Similarly, I vote every chance I get, despite the fact that my state and district are so Democratic that the election that counts is the Democratic primary, not the general election. Again, sense of duty. Some feel it, some don't. My grandmother's probably primarily responsible in my case.
I also understand it is hard to find that sense of duty when you see parties attack each other for better posturing, or lack of sensible Candidates. Not to mention the scandals and wasting tax payers money....I joined the service for a lot of reasons: a job, educational benefits, travel, getting the hell out of Oklahoma. But there was also a sense of duty in the mix. It's complicated, but there was a duty to the warrior ethos of the Shawnees, to America, and a few other factors. I don't talk about it much.
Point is I felt that duty. By contrast, our posters who yell most loudly for war on Muslims or Russians or whoever has them scared this week somehow never felt that duty. But I have not the first doubt they count themselves better citizens and more patriotic than me.
Similarly, I vote every chance I get, despite the fact that my state and district are so Democratic that the election that counts is the Democratic primary, not the general election. Again, sense of duty. Some feel it, some don't. My grandmother's probably primarily responsible in my case.
Not everybody has the same call to duty. Not everybody is cut out to be a soldier. I vote in every election. I pay my taxes honestly. I voice my opinion and have worked on campaigns if so moved. But I never felt the want or need to join the military. I honestly don't think I would be capable of killing someone and if I did, I know I would not be the same person.
Has it?
Maybe, I think in has failed in the U.S. considering how politicians are bought.
If we did this we would never have a Conservative government.