Joe E. Dees wrote:
> From: EvMick@aol.com
> Date sent: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:13:13 EST
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: The Education Function
> Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
>
> > In a message dated 12/11/98 2:36:12 PM Central Standard Time,
> > jdees0@students.uwf.edu writes:
> >
> > >
> > > "We" = those who cared enough to vote, obviously. Joe
> >
> > I think I'm insulted....(not sure)>
> > Consider the meme.>
> > "If you don't vote ...you don't care"...>
> > However...there are no real choices. A Republican votes just like a Democrat
> > after being elected (with various and sundry excuses as to why).
> >
> > So...to vote is to validate the system. NOT voting does not.
> >
> Not to vote is to forego one possibility of affecting upon the system.
> All our political systems are composed of people, some better than
> others. No choice is perfect, but to not choose is passive,
> vegetative and "victimicious."
Well, until there is a place on the ballot where I can vote NO on every candidate, then my disenfranchisement is not voluntary, but institutionalised and coerced.
Mike Lorrey