Friday, October 29, 2010

Getting Out The Vote; because I care

At long last, I've seen the light. I am finally accepting my civic duty to give back to the community. After all, I've been ripping them off for years, charging for my labor, exhaling harmful CO2, not to mention occasional methane emissions. For so long I did not get the whole "give back" thing. But then I realized how much all the give back talkers must have taken from the community. Honor among thieves and polluters, I guess.

So, to do my part I am canvasing cemeteries for unregistered voters. I hope to have them all registered in time to vote. It is too late for absentee ballot, but I think I can work something out.

I know it must be a good thing, but someone needs to explain to me again why it is so important to badger disinterested people into voting. They even pretend they don't care who you vote for, just want you to vote. If you aren't voting how I would like, I think you should stay home and do something else. If you have to be badgered and have no clue what is going on, I see no point in you weighing in on these matters. But, I know that is probably because I haven't yet given enough back to the community. Maybe soon I will understand.

To me it is like when the priest tells some couple to be fruitful and multiply. If he doesn't know them, he could be wishing some bad stuff on the world, and never know it. I think you should be cautious when encouraging people to vote or multiply. Maybe if I became Catholic, then went to priest college I would know better.

Until I am fully enlightened and evolved, I will ask that you don't vote unless you are going to vote like me, or unless you live in a cemetery, mausoleum, or other dead end neighborhood. In that case, just give me your tacit approval, and I'll do your voting for you.

2 comments:

  1. I vote when I care. At one time I didn't register as voting is a direct link to Jury duty in this city. Now, I can get out of Jury duty at a whim now so I vote.

    Politics is as clear as mud to me. I have several friends who are politicians and I see them in a different light. These folks are nothing like the media portrays.

    One is a Democratic Senator who is really a Republican. He ran as a Democrat so that he could be elected. He votes the Republican line.

    Great guy but he is forever locked in meetings, work and unfortunately cannot venture out much for fear of having "Fun"...

    Politics....I'm not cut out for it.

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  2. I think you are one of the lucky ones who fall into the category of realist.

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