HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT

[sally]

The analogy would be more like this. There are only two restaurants open, Indian and Mexican. I tell my retarded friends that I've eaten at both places and they suck, but they insist on choosing one anyway. So while they go and eat I go down the street to the bar and order a beer and maybe a bar snack even though the bar snack doesn't count as a full meal and never will be a full meal, but it's better than what they're eating.

We meet back at my car and they puke all over it on the way home, so then I say I told you retards not to eat there so don't complain now. I'm the one who should be complaining, my car smells like a rancid enchilada now and I'm the one that has to pay to have it steamed cleaned.

Your analogy is perfect, sal, to illustrate YOUR point of view. But, I understood your point of view without needing an analogy.

I think probably about 40% of the U.S. population shares your view. Lots of able-minded people won't participate or make a weighted decision unless it's an easy and likable exercise for them, even in matters that affect their lives and the lives of their families. So, they say 'fuck it'. Some of them do so quietly, others attempt to justify their apathy by positioning themselves as righteous and smart for plopping their lazy asses on the sidelines and letting others determine the outcome. Then, if they don't like the results/consequences, they paint themselves as victims of the people who did choose to participate..............and they bitch, which is their right (as far as I'm concerned).

My analogy was meant to demonstrate the point of view of people who don't think you have a right to bitch and complain if you refuse to participate, the logic of which you claim you can't understand and doesn't make sense to you. I think it's pretty easy to understand that sensible point of view, whether you agree with it or not.

Anyway, now I'm craving homemade enchildas and guacamole.

I know what your analogy meant, but when you describe the voters point of view you keep using the word lazy and insinuate that the non-voters allow everyone else to choose for them and then bitch about it. You find that a sensible point of view, I don't.

Refusing to vote for people you don't like doesn't equate to being lazy and allowing everyone else to make the decision. There's only two choices and one will inevitably win no matter what. If you weighed the pros and cons of both and equally dislike both then no one is making a choice for you because you wouldn't choose either.

You make it sound as if all the voters are making an extremely hard choice between Satan 1 and Satan 2 and taking one for the team and the non-voters are just sitting back saying fuck it. When in reality most voters are strictly for one party and they will defend their choice to their death never admitting the candidate they voted for was a total fuck up, but if the other party won then you'll hear their complaints alright.

So my opinion still stands, if non-voters can't complain then neither should voters. I don't even give a shit who complains, but I only hear that line of thinking from the voters which is why I brought it up.