BlueAriaStar
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First off, I hope everyone knew that elections were
yesterday.
Second off, I hope no one was STUPID enough to vote based on political party. I'm a registered Democrat, but back the republican Swartzenegger and the green Harter, and have participated in anarchist rallies when I felt compelled, because I was raised to think for myself. I'm seeing people shout out to "Vote Democrat!" or "Vote Republican!" like it's a popularity contest. If I don't agree with a stance my registered party is taking, should I really vote their way ir should I voted what I think is right?
Good gods, people, you have brains! Use them to think for yourself! If you vote along partisan lines without considering the issues, you should be taken into the woods and shot so that the people who actually engage their brains are the ones left to vote. So don't be a moronic drone jumping for treats from one party or another.
We should get rid of the party system and just have issues and candidates.
Third, this may be an unpopular view, but if you haven't been on one state at least a year, you shouldn't be allowed to vote for state elections, and if you haven't been in one county/city for six months, same thing. You haven't been there long enough to really have observed the workings of that location. I voted in state and I've been in California for far longer than I think anyone on I know, having been born here, and in country as I've been in Santa Clara county for a year, but not in city-local as I have been in the city of San Jose for 10 days and will not presume to know what's going on in San Jose. So this isn't being said just because I'm not so happy with some new people in the area acting like the authority on the history of California's complex political history and the local history.
If I recall correctly, this once was an issue, mandatory minimum residency requirements to vote in local and state elections. I backed it then, and I back it now. More than that, while not law, I abide by it. Just because you CAN vote does not actually mean that you should.
Fourth, those signs that say to vote this way or that, without ANYTHING TO BACK IT UP, should be banned. Why should I vote no on prop. X if no reason is given? A pretty blue background with yellow letting and a flag isn't going to convince me, and anyone who that does convince should be subject to the same fate as my second point.
Dammit, politics piss me off.
Second off, I hope no one was STUPID enough to vote based on political party. I'm a registered Democrat, but back the republican Swartzenegger and the green Harter, and have participated in anarchist rallies when I felt compelled, because I was raised to think for myself. I'm seeing people shout out to "Vote Democrat!" or "Vote Republican!" like it's a popularity contest. If I don't agree with a stance my registered party is taking, should I really vote their way ir should I voted what I think is right?
Good gods, people, you have brains! Use them to think for yourself! If you vote along partisan lines without considering the issues, you should be taken into the woods and shot so that the people who actually engage their brains are the ones left to vote. So don't be a moronic drone jumping for treats from one party or another.
We should get rid of the party system and just have issues and candidates.
Third, this may be an unpopular view, but if you haven't been on one state at least a year, you shouldn't be allowed to vote for state elections, and if you haven't been in one county/city for six months, same thing. You haven't been there long enough to really have observed the workings of that location. I voted in state and I've been in California for far longer than I think anyone on I know, having been born here, and in country as I've been in Santa Clara county for a year, but not in city-local as I have been in the city of San Jose for 10 days and will not presume to know what's going on in San Jose. So this isn't being said just because I'm not so happy with some new people in the area acting like the authority on the history of California's complex political history and the local history.
If I recall correctly, this once was an issue, mandatory minimum residency requirements to vote in local and state elections. I backed it then, and I back it now. More than that, while not law, I abide by it. Just because you CAN vote does not actually mean that you should.
Fourth, those signs that say to vote this way or that, without ANYTHING TO BACK IT UP, should be banned. Why should I vote no on prop. X if no reason is given? A pretty blue background with yellow letting and a flag isn't going to convince me, and anyone who that does convince should be subject to the same fate as my second point.
Dammit, politics piss me off.
