To vote or not to vote?

Oct 23, 2016 23:49

I know I've been neglecting my poor LJ page for a while. I should post something happy. But I need to get this off my chest ( Read more... )

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ms_verma October 24 2016, 11:55:41 UTC
Well... this is quite a dilemma. However, unless there's ABSOLUTELY no-one that you could agree with (or at least tolerate), I'd say go and vote; even if it means "throwing away" your vote.

The way I see it, if you don't vote, you basically let other people decide for you without even putting up a fight. And I do believe you know better than that. ;)

Also, on a happier note, nice to hear from you at all! ^_^

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brendala October 28 2016, 05:58:49 UTC
THANKS! I want to make an effort to keep this (and the Scooby comm) updated. It's just that work hours and life changes have severely limited my free time.

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ichiban_victory October 25 2016, 20:20:40 UTC
I couldn't vote for either of them, but Washington State has a lot of other elections and proposals that I do need to vote on...so I wrote someone in. I won't say who, though, but I voted according to my conscience. I think I'd rather Hilary in than Trump, but I'd rather not have either!

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brendala October 28 2016, 05:57:44 UTC
Oh, I'm still voting on all the other stuff on the ballot. I just couldn't decide which to do (I ended up settling on the write-in protest vote instead of the Libertarian protest vote).

If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose between Trump and Clinton, I'd probably lean toward Trump ONLY because he's so hated by both liberals AND conservatives right now that he wouldn't be able to get away with anything for very long. But I can understand why some people think a known entity like Hillary Clinton is preferable to a wild card like Trump who has no guiding principals. It just pisses me off when so-called "feminists" act like electing Hillary Clinton is a great feminist achievement when it's really not (all it does is prove that women can't get into power without latching onto a powerful man and clinging to him no matter what)

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ichiban_victory October 28 2016, 19:09:58 UTC
I would expect that if Trump gets into the White House, eventually he's going to say something or do something so callous that he'll get impeached, or at least only serve one term.

I felt this way in the last elections, but we should never vote for anything for being the first anything. I don't care about your skin color, religious persuasion, or gender. I want the president to be someone qualified for the position based on their skills, and skills alone!

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