The New Vote
Every year and usually around November it becomes your civic duty to vote. VOTE!!! Primaries...VOTE!!! I'm constantly inundated with pleas to vote. I have a few thoughts about this. 1. Don't vote. Just stop. Lets pretend your vote is money (worth about 5 dollars last I checked) If I bet you 5 dollars against you being able to pick on a list of platform planks which ones your candidate stands for. How many of you would take that bet? Double or nothing on the opponent? Now how many? Only those of you that are politically savvy or motivated would risk 5 dollars. The rest of us are either team players (straight ticket) or we just don't believe that voting does much (I vote but I'm in that camp). People shouldn't vote if they aren't educated about what they are voting for. They do a lot these days to help with that, but it still requires the voter to actually read and that might be too much. ...