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reply posted on 4-11-2008 @ 09:06 PM by computerwiz32
reply to post by Leo Strauss


wow nice comback.

well I guess you don't understand a real dictatorship.

if so you will know from having bush elected in 2 shows that voting is not showing your voice.

so why this time around it's different???

it's not the president that creates this real dictatorship. It's people that are in the gov that have special interests they look for ways to make the president and many others be in favor of their idea.

it's a struggle in Washington.

just look at the bail out deal the gov notice AIG withing weeks getting that bail out the CEO and many others went on a luxury vacation with out tax payers money.

That shows the problem.

These big corporations have connections in the white house and has a bigger voice then the middle and poor class people.

Money=Power.

The more money you have .. the more power you have in this country.


Just look at all this big corps and just look out for how they play their game in Washington.

GM has contracts to old workers to provide health care yet now they are slowly trying to get rid of that.

Gm and many big corporations has power because they have alot of money and are huge.

Now where is my bail out???

I am just saying you really need to look at the overall problem we face.

it's the government itself.

Obama can't do much changes dues to powerful special interests groups has their way to manipulate him.

This will happen in my opinion.


So if you think your vote counts think again. If you vote you will be blamed if that person gets in office and screws up this country some more.



I seriously believe that who ever voted for bush twice should be the onces you should pay off all the debt that bush gave to America.

I mean you voted him in and you would have to clean up his mess.


I admire anyone on here who didn't vote. I would say that it's very easy to fall for the election.

People think their voice gets heard yet they themselves don't know how the vote gets counted and don't see what goes on in the white house and the overall gov.

If you see what we see they will hopefully understand why we won't vote.

it's waste of time and can't do much.

We already experience a real dictatorship with the bail out. I notice alot of people calling their senators asking to not vote for the bail out.
and yet they did the opposite.



reply posted on 5-11-2008 @ 01:48 AM by bubbabuddha

Tens of millions of Americans can vote but choose not to. They are castigated by their peers, but they have the right idea. We’re told that if you don’t vote you can’t complain, but voting, at least for the major parties, does not register much of a complaint at all. You might think you’re voting against the war or tax hikes, but it will instead be counted as just another voice of unity behind the dictatorial mandates of the chosen leader.

that was a selection from The Insanity of Mass Democracy



Is there a case to be made for voting? Indeed there is, if one believes that social order is a quality that can be instilled, by violence and other coercive means, by political authorities. I do not accept this proposition. To the contrary, I believe that social order is the product of unseen, spontaneous influences of which most of us are not consciously aware. The study of economics helped me to understand how we respond, marginally, to fluctuations that are continuously generated by one another’s self-seeking pursuits. I also came to understand that politics – like a rock thrown through a spider’s web – disrupts these informal processes as well as the existing patterns of interconnectedness upon which any social order depends.

from here
Why I Do Not Vote



This brings us to a word far too common, "taxation." In the current political climate, "taxation" means paying one's "fair share." It is unconscionable that Americans have arrived in a circumstance in which a man can be forced at gunpoint to surrender half of what is rightly his. The claim then, is this: that he was simply "discharging the debt he justly and honestly owed as his portion," or, in other words, "paying his fair share." Upon what justification does anyone owe this debt? The only foundation upon which this claim can be made is the underlying immoral selfishness of mankind.

lastly from this article Voting Is ImmoralVoting Is Immoral

The thing that mostly turned me off was the implication that I'm either a racist or a male chauvinist no matter whom I vote for, no thanks, the only winning move in that kind of Jerry Springer style election would be not to play. The whole thing appears so much more like a circus or an episode of Montel or the TV courtroom soap operas, which are now like romance soap operas that I just couldn't hold my nose and vote. I've voted in every election since I turned 18 in 1992, for democrats and republicans, now I've come torealize my worst fears and that will be the American denial of individuality in the form of a uncriticizable elected, the kind of president criminals would collude in order to have in power, so that all critics are in some way "racist" and "hateful" or "intolerant" of such inanity disguised as leadership. We have a McDonalds presidency for a fast food nation, it maybe wont be too long before we exclude those areas that didn't vote for the king from the union. Diversity can be beautiful but alas beauty maybe in the eye of the beholder, tolerance can quickly turn into tension and chaos. The last time we flirted with large government we went to war, so everything people complained about during Bush, might become multipled exponentially under Obama in order to contradict and screw over his followers as was done by the globalists and Bush with his cronies to his faithful.
I see another set of wishful thinkers getting what they tought would be something else and later regretting the choice, that seems to usually turn out to be the case. It will be interesting to see just what passes for acceptability in a world where mild disagreement brings about the most baseless trashy Jerry Springer style press behavior, since that seems to have gotten this group of political something for nothings elected.



reply posted on 5-11-2008 @ 02:43 AM by SolarSeaman
reply to post by bubbabuddha



Thanks for that, matey. Often times in expressing my views to others I forget that the way I communicate internally is rather not how to convey my beliefs and experiences.

I see Sen Obama has won. Frak all the protest, an honest to god Son of a Kansas Woman won the White House!? That is more of a reason to shout than his dad being an African. He does/did have a struggle inside of his "small brain" (like his "real" identity, the overlogic?) over that I am for sure, and no matter whose agenda he his played to, I am glad that no one made a row over his past that mattered much.

HAHA I could talk about the "anti-christ" and the mark there of..mods hack me out if I am offending... You show the mark for the beast by using your hand to vote for him, in the minds of many he is the perfect man - sizzlefitz, let's all go to hel


reply posted on 5-11-2008 @ 05:38 AM by mysticalzoe
reply to post by MemoryShock


I didn't vote either, and neither did my husband, i will have to tell him the bad news, that man we feared would be president is president. I am very scared for my country, and what he represents. I don't trust him, and it scares me how people think he is like a God! I may be reading the bible a lot and praying again!! i don't think he will do anything he says he will do. that's my 2 cents.


reply posted on 5-11-2008 @ 07:14 AM by LadyPropag8r
reply to post by Djdoubt03


** Nice guns ya got there....hope ya get to keep em.

I wouldn't walk across the street to vote for any of our local issues or politicians. This is my right....to move to the mountains...grow my own veggies, exercise my right to declare myself a free and independant kuntry.
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