{"id":45927,"date":"2014-10-14T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/there-is-always-a-reason-to-vote.html"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:05:31","slug":"there-is-always-a-reason-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/there-is-always-a-reason-to-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"There is always a reason to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it's to vote for someone or something.<\/p>\n

Maybe it's to vote against someone or something.<\/p>\n

Maybe it's just to counter the vote of a dolt like this. (Feel free to insert the hateful, substance-free, foul-mouthed, political fringe lunatic of your particular disdain here.) Because the screaming, angry, blithering sorts are, for all their flaws, motivated.<\/i> They go out and vote, because it's something they can do to vent. And when enough of them do so, and enough of the relatively rational population doesn't — we get their<\/i> candidates elected, not ours.<\/p>\n

Then we scratch our heads, and wonder how our country has gone so wrong.<\/p>\n

[Note: I don't agree, even in jest, with calling anyone an "alleged human." That's the rhetorical tactic of folks like the gent below. But the basic premise remains: If he votes, and you don't, you've conceded the field to him.]<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If for no other reason, you should vote just to piss this guy off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThis Alleged Human Is Voting. Are You? (Video)<\/a><\/span>
\nThe midterm elections are just weeks away and I can’t think of a better person to get the vote out than Drew Walker, a self-described “patriot” who is upset that his videos\/pictures have been repor…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Maybe it's to vote for someone or something. Maybe it's to vote against someone or something. Maybe it's just to counter the vote of a dolt like this. (Feel free to insert the hateful, substance-free, foul-mouthed, political fringe lunatic of your particular disdain here.) 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