[Dean's World] Tyrone Steels II: No passion in voting...

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Posted by Tyrone Steels II:
No passion in voting...
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162394774.shtml


   I see posts about our democracy and voting by [1]Aziz P, [2]Dave
   Schuler, [3]Scott Kirwin, and [4]Ron Coleman and I'm filled with
   admiration and jealously. I admire there passion regarding our two
   party system and voting. I'm jealous because I lack that passion. To
   me, voting for Democrats and/or Republicans is a farce. All I see are
   folks throwing rhetorical "goodies" at me so I'll get my brown behind
   up and vote for them at the polls. Afterwards, it's back to the
   normality of nothing politics: backbiting, fussing, twisting,
   spinning, and blabbing. And I'm not proud of how I feel.

   I used to have voting passion. When your a black child growing up, you
   are constantly hit with "black folks died for the right to vote so you
   owe them" from family. And it works, friends. I was a stone cold
   believer of the power of the vote. Even though I came from a family of
   hardcore, active Democrats, I was always encouraged to vote how I feel
   no matter what the party. I've voted Democrat, Republican,
   Libertarian, and Green. I believed! Now I don't and I know what caused
   it: 9/11.

   9/11 made me more patriotic. 9/11 made me believe in Americans more.
   9/11 made me realize how we are perceieved internationally. 9/11 made
   me hate American politics. I watched how Democratic and Republican
   politicians forgot about "we the people" and concentrate on partisan
   points. Soon after the supposed solidarity on the 9/11 response, the
   Hatfields and McCoys Part Infinite started again. It's like Democrats
   and Republicans have a lust to humiliate and crush each other. I just
   can't get on-board anymore. These local races in Michigan are such a
   turn-off for me that I have to turn the channel immediately during a
   campaign commercial or risk hurling venom at the television screen.

   There's no place on the ballot for me. I can't vote "none of the
   above" and have it counted to express my displeasure. I either have to
   not vote or vote while hating it intensely. Both options upset me
   because I want to be counted. But I don't want to be counted while
   lying.

References

   1. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162391339.shtml
   2. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162346557.shtml
   3. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162350428.shtml
   4. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162345708.shtml