{"id":2627,"date":"2011-11-10T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:59:24","slug":"want-to-change-your-government-can-we-anti-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"Want to change your government… can we Anti-Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been hearing a lot about how much we all hate and blame the government.\u00a0 How its completely corrupt and doesn’t have ANY of our interests at heart.\u00a0 How we should all stand up and tell Congress & the Senate that we’re fed up and we’re not going to take it anymore!<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

And how are we going to do that?\u00a0 By voting out every incumbent?\u00a0 We’ve done that.\u00a0 Hell we do that somewhere with almost every election!\u00a0 And the amusing thing is, what are we actually doing?\u00a0 Replacing politicians with what……???? \u00a0 Yup, with politicians.\u00a0 How is that an\u00a0 improvement?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all say we want change but the system is so big all our change actually changes nothing.\u00a0 Democrats get mad at Republicans for their beliefs and at other Democrats for not being Liberal enough!\u00a0\u00a0 Republicans are so busy catering to the Big Money that is currently fucking them in the ass that I’m not sure even THEY are aware of what is actually coming out of their mouths!<\/p>\n

And the masses are both confused, tired and feel powerless to do anything.<\/p>\n

But today I had an interesting idea.\u00a0\u00a0 If voting won’t fix it, how about NOT voting.\u00a0 Would that send a strong enough message?\u00a0 I mean… imagine it.. everyone just boycotts the polls.\u00a0\u00a0 They’re all set up and no one shows.\u00a0 NO ONE gets re-elected NOR booted out.\u00a0\u00a0 The confusion alone would grind everything to a halt with less protest or violence than anything alone.\u00a0 And all it would take on YOUR part is staying home for the day!\u00a0\u00a0 Practically a win\/win!<\/p>\n

Yet I can foresee how even THAT won’t work.\u00a0 All it would take is one or two other people taking advantage of those NOT voting by slipping in a few who do, thereby guaranteeing a win.\u00a0 So obviously we’d have to pass an ordinance in every county or state that mandated every election have at least 50% of the populace vote or its invalid.\u00a0\u00a0 Then we can actually send a message by not doing anything.<\/p>\n

After all, we’re all lazy at heart or this would have been fixed with torches & pitchforks by now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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