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Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

Because we__e been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It__ ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you__e supposed to believe in__ really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it__ a good bet you remember __o new taxes_ and __ut of the loop_ and __o direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time_ and Did not inhale_ and __id not have sex with that woman_ and etc. etc. It__ depressing and painful to believe that the would-be __ublic servants_ you__e forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you__e an idiot. So who wouldn__ fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?

On Undecided Voter__: "To put them in perspective, I think_ of being_ on an airplane._ The flight attendant comes_ down the aisle_ with her food cart and, eventually,_ parks_ it beside my seat._ __an I inter__st you in the chick__n?__ she asks._ __r would_ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke__ glass_ in it?__o be undecided in this elect__on is to pause_ for a moment and then ask how the chick__n is cooked.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to useful working technologies. But in economics and the other social studies, nutty ideas may hang around for centuries. Today, leading presidential candidates and tens of millions of voters in the USA embrace ideas that might have been drawn from a 17th-century book on the theory and practice of mercantilism, and multitudes of politicians and ordinary people espouse notions that Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and others exploded more than two centuries ago. In these realms, nearly everyone simply believes whatever he feels good about believing.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, __n such and such circumstances, what would you do?_, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.

Do you want to live under someone else__ life? Nearly everything we get to do is because of politics. Everything else not open to us is because of the politicians. We don__ have much say already. Don__ make it we don__ even get to see

Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier _ and much, much harder.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.