Don't forget to Vote!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Published on November 3, 2008 By DigitusImpudicus In Everything Else

Just one more reminder to get out and vote Tuesday. Support your candidates or at least vote against the persons you DON'T want to win! It can be discouraging when you hear about voter fraud and long lines at the polls, but remember that many people gave their lives so we can have a voice in electing our leaders.

A few years back my wife and I stayed at "The Balsams" in Dixville Notch, NH. It's WAAAY up there, even parts of Canada are south! It's famous for being the first place in the USA to cast ballots on eelction day. They open at midnight on election day. "The Ballot Room" drips with history; its walls covered with pics of leaders and dignitaries who've visited (shilled? campaigned?) there. Now I always think of that place when it's time to vote.

VOTE! It's your civic duty! It'll make you feel good.

Comments (Page 4)

Jonnan001

on Nov 13, 2008

EviliroN

reply 19

Me, I still want a party-based parliamentary system and a plural executive except during a real war, like we had back in the '40s.

American government back in the FDR days was as fascist as it got, shame on you.

Do people not know the definition of Fascism anymore?

Without indulging a debate in wikifactuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism (including collectivism and populism based on nationalist values); Third Position (including class collaboration, corporatism, economic planning, mixed economy, national socialism, national syndicalism, protectionism,); totalitarianism (including dictatorship, indoctrination, major social interventionism, and statism); and militarism.

Admittedly, yes, you can make arguments for aspects, but fascism is a whole package - by any standard definition we're a lot closer to fascism under 'W' than we were under FDR.

Jonnan

Luckmann

on Nov 20, 2008

So, who won?
*opens up the blinds on the window for the first time in a week*

vieuxchat

on Nov 20, 2008

So you really live in Siberia

Sole Soul

on Nov 20, 2008

Luckmann

reply 22

So, who won?
*opens up the blinds on the window for the first time in a week*

It's sort of like The Game.

If you post, you lose.

Oh, DAMMIT.

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