Vote

View 1: Tomorrow is election day. You have a choice: You can participate and do your part to shape America's future, or you can stay at home and do nothing. We encourage you to make the choice to be heard. Experience true freedom. Vote.


View 2: You may have noticed that there's one thing I don't complain about: Politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says, "They suck". But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. No, they come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they're elected by American voters. This is the best we can do, folks. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.

....I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain", but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.

I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for what these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.

[George Carlin]


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Here I am, wanting to be heard, wanting my choice to count, but not wanting to be responsible for the aftermath.

What to do, what to do.

My choice for Governator, Cook County Board President and a few others are poor at best.

Governator's Race.
Do I vote for the nice guy who called me Saturday morning reminding me to get out and vote, or the other dude that came of age under now convicted George Ryan? Do I make my vote based on keeping someone out of office?

Cook County Board Pres.
Do I vote for the guy because his dad did the job until he had a stroke, or the guy I think will clean up the patronage hiring and corruption even though I think he has too many extreme values?

I just don't know. Maybe I'll sleep in instead as Mr. Carlin suggests.