Happy Voting Day!

[TheTexan]

CNN (my favorite news site) says this voting day will be particularly exciting and I agree.

There will be a surprise. Voters are fickle and polls aren't perfect and predictions are even less so. So tune in to CNN Politics all day and night Tuesday. We will be here and it will be exciting.

I wonder what kind of exciting twists and surprises are in store for this time!

Vote hard, good luck, and may your chosen candidates win!

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

Vote hard people.... Vote hard! The harder you vote....

 

[tod evans]

Vote hard people.... Vote hard! The harder you vote....

 

[Occam's Banana]

Voting has done wonders for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just imagine what it could do for America!

So vote early, vote often ... and VOTE HARD!!!

 

[Suzanimal]

I'm feeling mighty patriotic, I might even vote twice today.

NSFW

 

[Carlybee]

I was going to vote hard but maybe I'll just hardly vote.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Oh that was epic.

I owe you a rep.

I'm feeling mighty patriotic, I might even vote twice today.

NSFW

 

[phill4paul]

Oh that was epic.

I owe you a rep.

Covered. LOL.

 

[presence]

 

[Danke]

Cool people get to walk around today with one of those "I Voted" stickers.

 

[presence]

"Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant."

Dr. Ron Paul

 

[thoughtomator]

The only thing that surprised me about this election season is the lack of an "October surprise". Really thought Obama & Co. would pull something. Maybe he's saving it for taking revenge on the country for taking his Senate away.

 

[Carlybee]

The only thing that surprised me about this election season is the lack of an "October surprise". Really thought Obama & Co. would pull something. Maybe he's saving it for taking revenge on the country for taking his Senate away.

Ebola...maybe it backfired and not enough people got infected in time to cancel the elections.

 

[orenbus]

 

[Lucille]

 

[green73]

I'm feeling mighty patriotic, I might even vote twice today.

NSFW

Bwaaahahaha

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Suzanimal again.

 

[Lucille]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/are-you-voting-today/

Writes Jim Quinn of the Burning Platform:

I’ve concluded we are run by One Party. Voting will change nothing. We are living in a corporate fascist warfare/welfare empire of debt run by billionaires and bankers. The Republican/Democrat kabuki theater is designed to keep the sheeple distracted and angry at each other. This keeps them from focusing on the oligarchs stealing them blind, luring them into debt, and using their children as cannon fodder in un-Constitutional wars around the globe. Since 2000 we have had Republicans in complete control and Democrats in complete control. No matter who is in charge, the welfare state and warfare state grows ever larger. The national debt has grown exponentially under both parties. Neither party will change the status quo because they are the status quo. It’s the people versus the state. We are on course for a financial, economic and societal collapse. Voting will not change this course.

I will not be voting today and don’t foresee ever voting again in my lifetime. I judge people by their actions, not their words. The actions of those we have elected have been reckless, corrupt, and disastrous for the future of my children. Homey don’t play that game anymore.

 

[ctiger2]

I plan on not voting to the best of my ability today.

 

[TheTexan]

I plan on not voting to the best of my ability today.

Recovering addict? That's ok,, I understand. If you change your mind, let me know, I have GOTV contacts in basically every city in the country who can get you a ride to the polls. I also have a few GOTV contacts in Mexico as well.

 

[Lucille]

I might actually vote on a few ballot measures, and for Barry Hess.

http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/11/election-day.html

I trust by now that anyone reading this blog has been sufficiently disabused of the notion that freedom has any causal relationship with voting. As the New York Times made clear today to even the slowest midwits, voting is not, and has never been, a Constitutional or human right. Women, like men, can be denied the privilege, it merely cannot be denied by "by the United States or by any State" on the sole basis of sex.

The 19th Amendment states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Which raises the question, what right of the citizens of the United States to vote? It is not numbered amongst the unalienable rights listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. It does not appear in the Bill of Rights. The Constitution "left the boundaries of suffrage undefined" and the only directly elected body specified was the House of Representatives, for which "voter qualifications were explicitly delegated to the individual states."

In any event, as millions of voters exercise their privilege across the USA today, it is very, very unlikely that the replacement of a Democratic majority in the Senate with a Republican one, and the strengthening of the Republican majority in the House is going to signify much in the grand scheme of things. The federal government will continue its deficit spending, the banks will continue to loan out credit money they create ex nihilo, Wall Street will continue to dictate policy to Washington, the U.S. military will continue to intervene in the affairs of sovereign nations around the world, and the flow of diverse and semicivilized immigrants will continue unabated.

So enjoy the show, but understand it is merely rote and ritual, a piece of kabuki theater to which we all know the steps and the lines.