Comments on: HuffPo #5 – Maybe You Shouldn’t Vote http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/ Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Your Undecided Voter http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Your Undecided Voter Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:49:29 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-16 You make such great points. Why doesn't everybody stay at home and just not vote? That would make this such a more efficient representative democracy. We are all narrow-minded people who only increase close-mindedness by becoming more of an expert on things. People who do not know every detail of the presidential candidates' policies should not despair and not vote because even smart people like you who do know every area of policy for the candidates will not likely know these same plans once they make office. Policy changes and is not concrete, especially when the candidates' policies face Congress, the White House, special interest groups, and the most crucial judges in the American people. For example, if you fell in love and finally found someone you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, would you choose not to marry this person because you didn't know everything about the person or how he/she would be in the future? People must vote or protest voting in order to take a stand for their beliefs, no matter what their beliefs or reasonings are. How else will people make their lives matter? Otherwise they will go through life unnoticed, unheard, and therefore somewhat nonexistent. Furthermore, this is why people may find it truly more accurate to examine and attempt to determine how candidates think and what their biases are instead of basing support on favor for their unstable policies. If one can figure out how a candidate is most likely to react when faced with certain controversial and unforeseen issues, then one may be able to decipher which candidate best represents one's own personal interests. Finding another's biases, a.k.a. beliefs, can generally predict how that individual will respond to conflict. Finding one's own biases can reveal to you what it is you stand for, which beliefs have no logic to support them, and which beliefs you want absolutely protected. I challenge you all to look at the various sides of politics, use logical and academic reasoning in your research of the presidential race, and determine what candidate is possibly the best for you. Know for whom and why you voted for that candidate or why you chose not to vote at all. Then you can legitimately feel represented or regret your decision for the next four years of your life. Go to http://mypoliticalinquiry@blogspot.com and answer this question on the economic issue if you are able to accept a challenge: what, if any, is the direct causal relationship between which candidate is elected president and the advancement of your economic pursuit of happiness? Make yourself heard, don't be a "bad" voter...whatever that means. Voting is a privilege, not a skill, so take advantage of it. You make such great points. Why doesn’t everybody stay at home and just not vote? That would make this such a more efficient representative democracy. We are all narrow-minded people who only increase close-mindedness by becoming more of an expert on things. People who do not know every detail of the presidential candidates’ policies should not despair and not vote because even smart people like you who do know every area of policy for the candidates will not likely know these same plans once they make office. Policy changes and is not concrete, especially when the candidates’ policies face Congress, the White House, special interest groups, and the most crucial judges in the American people. For example, if you fell in love and finally found someone you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, would you choose not to marry this person because you didn’t know everything about the person or how he/she would be in the future? People must vote or protest voting in order to take a stand for their beliefs, no matter what their beliefs or reasonings are. How else will people make their lives matter? Otherwise they will go through life unnoticed, unheard, and therefore somewhat nonexistent. Furthermore, this is why people may find it truly more accurate to examine and attempt to determine how candidates think and what their biases are instead of basing support on favor for their unstable policies. If one can figure out how a candidate is most likely to react when faced with certain controversial and unforeseen issues, then one may be able to decipher which candidate best represents one’s own personal interests. Finding another’s biases, a.k.a. beliefs, can generally predict how that individual will respond to conflict. Finding one’s own biases can reveal to you what it is you stand for, which beliefs have no logic to support them, and which beliefs you want absolutely protected. I challenge you all to look at the various sides of politics, use logical and academic reasoning in your research of the presidential race, and determine what candidate is possibly the best for you. Know for whom and why you voted for that candidate or why you chose not to vote at all. Then you can legitimately feel represented or regret your decision for the next four years of your life. Go to http://mypoliticalinquiry@blogspot.com and answer this question on the economic issue if you are able to accept a challenge: what, if any, is the direct causal relationship between which candidate is elected president and the advancement of your economic pursuit of happiness? Make yourself heard, don’t be a “bad” voter…whatever that means. Voting is a privilege, not a skill, so take advantage of it.

]]> By: datdamwuf http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-15 datdamwuf Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:23:00 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-15 Loved this, my contribution: 10. Did you pray to God asking who to vote for, and did he answer you? If yes, you are certainly a bad voter, please pray for a brain on election day. I found this entry on huff but liked it so much I had to check you out :). Loved this, my contribution:

10. Did you pray to God asking who to vote for, and did he answer you?
If yes, you are certainly a bad voter, please pray for a brain on election day.

I found this entry on huff but liked it so much I had to check you out :) .

]]> By: steve hines http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-14 steve hines Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:06:09 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-14 Hi Bill, Great post. I'm a Huffingtonpost fan and get my partisan fix there. BTW belated congrats on the book. Steve Hi Bill,

Great post. I’m a Huffingtonpost fan and get my partisan fix there.

BTW belated congrats on the book.

Steve

]]> By: Laura Roberts http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Laura Roberts Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:31:16 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-13 This is so great! You made some AMAZING points that put a smile on my face. I especially enjoyed number 2, as these are problems that concern me about some voters as well!! Fantastic : ) This is so great! You made some AMAZING points that put a smile on my face. I especially enjoyed number 2, as these are problems that concern me about some voters as well!!
Fantastic : )

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Cheryl Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:03 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-12 I needed a giggle today. Thank you. I needed a giggle today. Thank you.

]]> By: Marshall Stern http://www.billfolman.com/blog/2008/10/29/huffpo-5-maybe-you-shouldnt-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Marshall Stern Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:18:18 +0000 http://www.billfolman.com/blog/?p=61#comment-11 I love your post about not voting. The only thing I take exception with is equating Kieth Olberman, Rachel Maddow and Huffington Post with Drudge and the like. There is a very different standard that these sources go by as they do make a strong good faith effort to get their facts straight whereas these others are consistently contemptuous of facts. This smells to me like the false equivalencies that have become all too common in our current political discourse. I love your post about not voting. The only thing I take exception with is equating Kieth Olberman, Rachel Maddow and Huffington Post with Drudge and the like. There is a very different standard that these sources go by as they do make a strong good faith effort to get their facts straight whereas these others are consistently contemptuous of facts. This smells to me like the false equivalencies that have become all too common in our current political discourse.

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