A confession - I'm never voting again

[Nealithi]

Not getting into the other issues mentioned. Sorry to see you leaving the voting pool. But I shall remain despite the disappointment in recent events. I follow a rule from West Wing. Voting like jury duty. Do it or don't. But if you don't then you do no have the right to complain about issues. (The quote was about jury duty and if not then you can't complain about the OJ verdict.)

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

If I even hear one more woman at work asking me to do her work, because I'm a man and still am not getting paid more than her, then I'll start voting for a party that aims at getting women back into the kitchen again.

See, to me, that kinda sounds like oppression and non-equality. The individual women at your workplace are annoying you, so you want to enforce 1950s nuclear family get-in-the-kitchen-bitch-and-make-me-a-sandwich rules. Because your particular office, in your particular town, in your particular part of the country, has women who don't pull their weight. Is there some sarcasm or turn of rhetoric that I'm missing here?

[Riedquat]

Voting like jury duty. Do it or don't. But if you don't then you do no have the right to complain about issues.

Not really, it depends why you don't vote. Too disgusted by a choice that's no real choice? Voting only helps legitimise that situation, although it's probably better to spoil your ballot then.

[Robovski]

People in charge sure do love to get Turkeys to vote for Christmas (or Thanksgiving, depending where you live).

[Nealithi]

Voting like jury duty. Do it or don't. But if you don't then you do no have the right to complain about issues.

Not really, it depends why you don't vote. Too disgusted by a choice that's no real choice? Voting only helps legitimise that situation, although it's probably better to spoil your ballot then.

See that is the argument I never quite get. It implies here. (Out right stated by others.) That by voting you lose the right to complain. But by that logic the only ones that can see something wrong in our country would be those outside it? I admit that the two party system more often then not feels like voting for the lesser of two evils. But how is ignoring the vote a help?