no you misunderstand,
i'm not talking about a policy or a license to vote, i'm talking a cultural thing... we need to stop telling people "they must vote at all costs" and instead say "you don't have to vote if you don't want to take an interest, that's fine"
EDIT: to clarify i don't think the vote should be restricted, but instead we need to stop telling people they have to vote, it should be a right you choose to excersise because you have a passion or an interest, not because you have been culturally and socially bullied into it,
mainstream politics does this to "soak up" those votes and continually distort democracy, every election I hear "people died for your right to vote" and it drives me mad, people died for our right to be able to vote you know as a choice ... but there's an expectation of intellectual responsibility that goes with that....
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:31, Share, Reply)
Ah I see, fair enough but that shouldn't be official policy in my book.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:35,
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god no, that would be a highway to fascism,
a cultural thing... totally something that ultimately WE need to realise.
I have a right to an opinion, but only an informed opinion has the right to be heard.
If we are honest with ourselves we know that turning on the tv is not recieving an informed opinion... that's lazy... and we know that in so many aspects of our lives that we actually give a shit about...
if you don't give a shit about politics, you don't have to vote...
I mean soon we'll be letting the Vegans choose the food for a BBQ... where does it end!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:39, Share, Reply)