Saturday - October 23, 2004

Should You Vote?  Or Stay at Home?

I almost decided not to post about this but yesterday I got a call at the last minute to work as a poll observer here in my county.  Florida allows early voting so we send folks out to make sure the Dummycraps don’t pull any stunts.

I sat there for 4 hours watching some of the STUPIDEST FUCKING PEOPLE on the face of the planet attempt to vote.  They had no clue what the ballot measures were.  They had no clue what judges to vote for.  One didn’t even want to vote for anything but ballot measures.  Some could hardly answer the questions related to personal ID.  A few argued about the ballot they got saying their sample ballot had more stuff to vote on than the real one they were given (never mind that the sample ballot plainly states it is the size it is because our county is gerrymandered and depending on where you live your choices for state senator are different since different ballots must be printed for those precincts.)

So after I got home and re-read this article I fully agree.  Many people should stay at home.  This bullshit about encouraging people to vote is just that---bullshit.  We have way too many people who are so damned stupid that in my world I’d have shot them in order to cleanse the gene pool but in this world.....well, they should stay at home.

Here are some stats to back my opinion (and that of the author’s) up:

Seventy percent of voters apparently were completely unaware of the fact that the federal government adopted a huge prescription drug benefit as part of Medicare during the term of President Bush. Fully 65 percent did not know that the government had passed a ban on partial birth abortions. Some 58 percent acknowledged that they knew little or nothing about the Patriot Act (a figure Somin argues persuasively is probably low-ball). Sixty-one percent thought, incorrectly, that there had been a net job loss in 2004. Only 32 percent were aware that Social Security is one of the two largest expenditure areas in the federal government. Only 25 percent could correctly state that the Bush administration does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Only 22 percent knew that the current unemployment rate is lower than the average for the past 30 years.

Go ahead.  Go read it.

I believe you will agree.  If you run into people like this, do your damnest to convince them to stay at home.  Use any argument or logic you have to.  Hell, be like a democrat and LIE to them if that’s what it takes!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/23/2004 at 06:32 AM   
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