I'm Done Voting
I haven't voted for a long, long time. Have remained registered as an Independent. My coworkers twisted my arms almost completely off to get me to vote this time. I did. Voted as any good Objectivist would. But, I did it knowing my vote won't count at all. It felt disgusting, filthy. I'm going to try to unregister. Maybe then I can escape jury duty too - where you have to sit and hear how everybody in the room except you has a criminal past, and where you have to explain to morons the difference between "sometimes" and "always", or "yes" and "no". They can have this mess. Wallow in it. Soon, I'll vanish from it. Blech!
You will be hard pressed to find the semi-arid climate you enjoy but you will likely put your family in a safer environment.
I shall vote for freedom.
Today that line was out the door and wrapped a third of the way around the building. Later in my car I heard Hannity say a long line should be a good sign. Hope he's right.
I found out later she gave them a hard time...how embassisking...
(Psst! Believe it or not, my last name does not for really real start with the "A" for His Immense Eminence Dino Allosaurus Esquire III)
Lady explained to me they no longer look me up in a big book. It's all computerized now. She waved me over to the ID checker first space that opened up with more ladies seated behind li8ttle monitors along a long table. I even signed a computer screen spun around for me to write on.
I still had to mark a paper ballot fed into vote counting machine. Never had to worry about Florida hanging chads voting in Alabama
The thought of Nutty Nancy again becoming the majority speaker makes me cringe, though the Jackass Party socialist wannabes having that power is a far bigger issue for me.
does. Every vote counts!! Twisted attitude, Dude.
So, yes, you have the right to bitch. Today, tomorrow, forever....even if you are your own worst enemy by doing so.
What will be interesting to watch is how far off base the pollsters were. Newt Gingrich said one polling firm had to call over 31,000 people to get about 300 that would answer their questions. A 1% sample sounds like a shaky premise on which to base outcomes. I suspect there are many like me who don't answer phone numbers that I either don't know, or which have no caller ID.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose free will"
Recently we voted out a couple of city council members and a spend-thrift city manager. I stood up and harranged the council a every chance I got --even wrote letters to the editors of local papers. It worked!
I do think also that WAY too much of our attention is paid to government in general. Government is NOT the end-all in our country on a day to day basis. The decisions we all make every day are what decides our personal fate, and should be more important and take our attention.
I am tired of watching all these ads fro politicians. The only thing I really want of the less than 50% of the current politicians we actually need is for them to manage the money we give them most efficiently to run the government.
Voting to take the unearned is insanely easy.
There are two new religions in the U.S.....one of them is politics.
Anyway, in the DC swamp it appears what remains of Free America held on to the Senate, but the Communists tipped the House.
From CBS:
Two New York lawmakers are working to draft a bill that would propose a social media check before a gun purchase. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and state Senator Kevin Palmer’s proposal would allow authorities to review three years of social media history and one year of internet search history of any person seeking to purchase a firearm.
People gladly surrender freedom (and privacy) if they think it makes them safer… especially if they think it also helps lower their mortgage payments or get more freebies. I used to bet that this is not the case in America. But if a socialist wins in Texas to be a senator, all bets are off.