Should my brother vote or not vote?
i just got done registering to vote, and i recommended that my brother register to vote as well. he tells me that he is unsatisfied with all candidates and that the appropriate thing to do is not vote.
he says that he will be disappointed with whoever he votes for, so there is no point in voting.
is this position even defendable? or is it completely retarded and idiotic? i think its the latter...
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He is referring to the two main candidates, but he also told me that because a third party candidate will never win, that he sees no reason to vote at all. He seems to think that no vote is the best vote if you are dissatisfied with the selection of political candidates. Side: Vote
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He can write in someone. Whether it be a candidate not even on the ballot, or a person who isn't even running. If he doesn't want to vote for president (due to his position), then at least he should vote on the state measures or state positions on his ballot this November. Side: Vote
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With whom does he agree with the most ideologically? Is he an anarchist or apathetic? If he sides mostly with Romney, he should vote for Romney. If he is the "screw the two-party system" kind of guy, that's a Gary Johnson thing. If he is has that mentality but agrees with Obama, Jill Stein. But don't tell him to do something that would make him an extension of your vote (i.e. do what Andy is saying and only tell him to vote if he will be voting for your preferred candidate). I'm going to have to go completely against Andy on this one. Side: Dont vote
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With whom does he agree with the most ideologically? Is he an anarchist or apathetic? He agrees the most with Obama, between the two. He also says that voting for a 3rd party candidate is pointless because they will never win. But don't tell him to do something that would make him an extension of your vote I didn't. I told him I didn't care who he voted for, so long as he voted. Not voting at all is a poor and idiotic decision. Side: Vote
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is this position even defendable? or is it completely retarded and idiotic? i think its the latter... I don't. I see electing another vote-whore in a system that deliberately nullifies my vote as in individual roughly equivalent to shooting myself in the foot. And every election I am given two choices: shoot myself in the right foot, or the left one. And every election I take the road less traveled and decide not to shoot myself in the foot at all, and not vote. Just because a candidate is the lesser of two evils doesn't mean I should vote for evil at all. That, and it's not like the democratic will of the people elects presidents anyways. It's all about voting districts, and the electoral college, systems that make the popular vote - the only vote that should matter - completely worthless. I'm with your brother. I despise the candidates and I despise the system they have constructed to get themselves elected, and as it is not the platform of any of the current or past presidential candidates (that I am aware of) to eliminate the electoral college, I don't see a point in voting. My vote doesn't count, and I dislike the people I would be voting for even if my vote did count. Side: Dont vote
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Unless your brother is a member of Congress, his vote is inconsequential. Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 by over half of a million votes, he didn't become president. Based on that, the only conclusion I can only come to is that 51,000,000 votes (the majority of votes for that election) didn't matter. There are better ways to spend his time. Side: Dont vote
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