I didn't vote. Sue me.

[needtogetarmy]

I decided not to vote this time around. We actually had some good candidates running. The Dems in NC are blue-dog dems (most of them anyway) so I figured it wouldn't matter who the hell I voted for.

I think I have totally lost faith in this nation. Most of the troubles are caused by the fed and we can't vote out those screwballs.

The crazy thing is there was a time I would have walked across a mine field for my country. I refuse to walk to the ballot box now. Sad state we are in.

 

[javaguru]

I decided not to vote this time around. We actually had some good candidates running. The Dems in NC are blue-dog dems (most of them anyway) so I figured it wouldn't matter who the hell I voted for.

I think I have totally lost faith in this nation. Most of the troubles are caused by the fed and we can't vote out those screwballs.

The crazy thing is there was a time I would have walked across a mine field for my country. I refuse to walk to the ballot box now. Sad state we are in.

I've been throwing away my vote for almost twenty years...I vote Libertarian with my protest vote. We managed 2% in the last governor and house election!

 

[needtogetarmy]

I've been throwing away my vote for almost twenty years...I vote Libertarian with my protest vote. We managed 2% in the last governor and house election!

I've done that before myself.

I was a member of the local libertarian group for a while but stopped going to meetings. A few crack-pots ruined it.

 

[javaguru]

I've done that before myself.

I was a member of the local libertarian group for a while but stopped going to meetings. A few crack-pots ruined it.

I know what you're talking about with the crack pots. Thomas Jefferson is my favorite founder and some of his basic ideas behind government are considered crack pot by your typical politician. Rand Paul was called crazy for wanting to eliminate the Department of Education, something created in the late 1970's which has been a bureaucratic epic fail. I consider the "tea party movement" a joke. You can't restrain the federal government while demanding nanny state services like social security and medicare.

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. " -Thomas Jefferson

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."- Thomas Jefferson

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. "-Thomas Jefferson

 

[nangiggles]

I couldnt vote, missed my first election had to walk (because my old car broke down) 4 miles/8 back and forth and then run to work in a very short time period so I couldnt do it, missed my first elections

 

[EnderJE]

There is profit to keep people in the nanny state.