Monday, April 20, 2015

Gratitude Monday -- Why Not Vote?

So you're not voting in the May 5 provincial election. Well, aren't you a special angel?
It's your right to sit on your ass and let total strangers who go out to vote decide your government for you. And whatever happens it is not your fault, you didn't vote for the greedy bastards.

Like I said, it is your right and you have every right to exercise the right that good men and women fought and died securing for you. We can not vote here without fear. I am grateful for that.

We can fearlessly sit on our asses while others make decisions for us. I am grateful, as I said, and good on you for exercising that side of it, but don't expect me to applaud it, and don't whine to me about the government afterward.
Why not?
Because you also have the right to vote for whomever you damn well please. If you can't be bothered to do it, then shut the fuck up. Suck it up and go on, whiner. I have no time for you.
Why not vote?
Because you can.
Why not vote instead?
You can do that, too, and no matter the result you have every right to complain about the outcome.






4 comments:

Tabor said...

Yes, it takes time to study the candidates and issues, but that is also one's duty as a citizen. Amazing how lazy many Americans are.

messymimi said...

If you are conscientiously objecting, that's fine, i support your right to do that. If you are just too lazy, don't complain when you don't get what you want in a government.

solarity said...

Yes.

Mary Anne in Kentucky

the Bag Lady said...

I agree. If you don't take the opportunity to have your voice heard with your vote, then you had better just keep quiet about what happens in government.