Comments on: Election ‘05: Apathy http://www.leyton.org/2005/04/27/election-05-apathy/ Thoughts. Comment. Opinion. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:15:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: leyton.org » Election ‘05: Why vote? http://www.leyton.org/2005/04/27/election-05-apathy/#comment-354 leyton.org » Election ‘05: Why vote? Wed, 04 May 2005 14:23:12 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2005/04/27/election-05-apathy/#comment-354 <p>[...] 8221;, or - if you really dislike the options available - stand yourself. Not voting, as Ben suggests in my earlier post would lend more weight to those who do and don’t [...]</p> [...] 8221;, or - if you really dislike the options available - stand yourself. Not voting, as Ben suggests in my earlier post would lend more weight to those who do and don’t [...]

]]> By: Ben http://www.leyton.org/2005/04/27/election-05-apathy/#comment-304 Ben Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:59:41 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2005/04/27/election-05-apathy/#comment-304 <p>Don't vote, it only encourages the power crazed loonies and their wonks, who smugly claim they represent us. They don't. They represent their own interests and the interests of real people are ignored.</p> <p>Thankfully more people these days see through the con and increasingly don't vote for the fraudsters. If this trend continues, eventually we can have a real system for representing us, I hope based on randomly selected regional assemblies of citizens who manadate legislation through secret ballot - real democracy.</p> <p>By withdrawing one's vote, eventually the single ideology state that currently subjects us will be overturned, because it will patently not have the support of the citizens. </p> Don’t vote, it only encourages the power crazed loonies and their wonks, who smugly claim they represent us. They don’t. They represent their own interests and the interests of real people are ignored.

Thankfully more people these days see through the con and increasingly don’t vote for the fraudsters. If this trend continues, eventually we can have a real system for representing us, I hope based on randomly selected regional assemblies of citizens who manadate legislation through secret ballot - real democracy.

By withdrawing one’s vote, eventually the single ideology state that currently subjects us will be overturned, because it will patently not have the support of the citizens.

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