Politics as usual
by Freedom Fighter, Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 06:57:44 PM EST
Reasons I hate politics:
- When I vote for someone I supposedly 'accept' everything they stand for, even I vote for them simply because there is no better option. My vote is not my mandate.
- Political discussions never change ideas they just raise tempers.
- The "your vote counts" lie. When my vote gets thrown into to a pool of 60 million for the president, hundreds of thousands for my two senators, and thousands for my one Congressman, with the rest of the House and Senate being voted by millions of other people not even in my state (not to mention that half of those base their vote on the fact that their daddy liked FDR or some other equally ridiculous reason) then my vote doesn't count.
- Federalism, along with the two problems just mentioned,has made us angrier and waste a whole lot of time. We spend millions of hours and money on commentating and argueing over issues that when it comes down to it, we have no control over. We keep hoping that our representatives representing collectively over 300 million people with people from different regions and backgrounds to somehow come together to make a system of government that works best for all of them and that makes most of them happy with how their government is run. We also expect voters to be informed on a multitude of issues when given the value of their individual vote that wouldn't even be rational.
- Somehow, this system is supposed to make me feel like I'm 'free'. Somehow having the majority of my tax dollars and increasingly more of the laws that regulate my everyday life being determined by this system where my individual vote is essentially worthless doesn't make me feel particularly 'free'.
Anyway, that is my rant for the day, unlikely that any of you will read it, but I feel much better.
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