...Welcome back fools
We posed the question in our last post, what, if any is the causal relationship between voting and being a fool? Now time to embellish...
There are many types of people that vote. There are single issue voters who make their election choices based upon a single issue, and voters who select a candidate based upon his or her style of dress or whether or not the candidate is deemed to be good looking. The fact of the matter is that not everyone that votes is going to agree completely with one candidate or another. Also, not every person that votes is going to know everything about the issues at stake. There is a certain amount of political apathy that exists among the population of the country today, and for that reason people who vote are fools. It would be foolish to let someone eat your ice cream cone on a 100 degree day when you are craving ice cream. Similarly, it is foolish to vote for a candidate who you do not completely agree with on every issue. If you are not going to be fully satisfied with a candidate (meaning that their views on issues do not agree with yours in every way), why vote for them? If there is no candidate that fulfills your predetermined criteria for president, why vote period? Because people fill as if it is important to vote (which it is), and as if it is their civic duty. And since there is no candidate that is in full accordance with a person's views, that person makes a compromise and votes for the candidate that best represents that person's stance on an issue. Because we are making compromises on who to vote for, we are being foolish because we are choosing a person who we do not agree with 100% on the issues.
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7 comments:
Your argument is that since people can not agree on every topic that voters should not participate in elections? That is absurd. Do you propose instead only having people in charge who agree with each other on all topics? That is impossible; we are human and everyone disagrees on something at some level, and secondly if we had a system like this the government would not be accountable to anyone. Even though voters may not be informed on all of the most important topics they are still participating in the most patriot form of expression.
You said that the relationship between voter apathy and being a fool is ignorance. I definitely do not agree with that. It does not make any sense. You just said that, out of nowhere, people who vote are fools. You do not make a clear argument for this statement and it makes you look like the fool. Citizens in America do not become true citizens until they participate in the democratic processes our ancestors fought for. You are demonstrating that people who vote are fools and thus our ancestors were fools for trying to give the country that right.
Your arguing that if you do not agree completely with a candidate on all issues that you souldn't vote. This doesn't make sense, if that was the criteria people used to make decisions on voting, instead of making compromises like you discussed, no one would vote. The democratic process would not exist. We are human and inherently we all have different ideas and beliefs and therefore disagree. So it is essential to compromise in order to move past these disagreements. So making compromises in voting is the only way our democratic society could work. I disagree that this makes voters fools, maybe it makes them wise becasue they recognize the only way to move past an arguement is to compromise. So i think, those you deem fools are most important to the democratic society.
Your agrument not to vote if not completely in favor of everything a candidate stands for is idiotic! If that should be the case maybe we will have one of two people vote in the election. Few completely agree with every plan or idea a condidate has. It is in the best intrest of the person and our country to vote for who is the best representation of your ideas and thoughts about the issues. But this leaves me wondering....are you completely in line with what one candidate believes??? If not are you voting?? If your not voting, then why have a political blog about "the issues" or anything about the election??
Ashley we do not mean to say that if you do not agree with them completely you should not vote but rather, that the system is flawed in that it forces us to mask some of our real policy preferences, when we vote for a candidate who we do not completely agree with.
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