Back when I had about fifty employees, (most were predominately Black) I encouraged them all to go and vote. I even gave everyone a half of a day off, to go and vote. Somewhere, around 1990ish, it dawned on me, that the few employees that did choose to go and vote, did not vote the way that I voted, or the way that I wanted them to vote, and like I said, most of them chose to go and drink or do some other, "constructive" past time, instead of voting.
So, around this time, I quit giving folks a half a day off to go and vote, and I strongly encourage Moonbats, Crackpots, and Anarcho-Capitalists to stay at the house on election day. As demonstrated here in Political Forum, many folks don't have a clue what is going on around them in the first place, and dangerous to themselves, as well as to the general public. I encourage the few employees that I have today, (all contractors by the way) to go to the bar and have a few drinks instead of voting.....That they should not worry about such things. Seems to work out well. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thats relevant. This is your thread. I am asking YOU. > > > ROTFLMAO! > I have been concerned with this sham and illusion for decades. > > NOW -- other than your endless efforts at fallacy -- what is it you imagine > that has to do with: > > *"A majority of those who could have voted refused to. A supermajority > either chose not to vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp. "Yet for > the next two years, that politician will claim to 'represent,' and to > possess legitimate authority to rule, all of them." > > * *2010 Mid-Terms: Only 29% Consent to be Governed by the 112th US > Congress* *90 million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional > elections. 220 million didn't. So much for the consent of the governed.* FOR > IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) <http://www.prlog.org/> – *Nov 04, > 2010* – According to the Associated Press, 90 million Americans -- only > 42% of registered voters -- pulled the lever for a congressional candidate > on Tuesday. That's just a hair under 29% of the US population of 310.6 > million. > "So much for the consent of the governed," says Thomas L. Knapp of the > X2012 Project (http://x2012.us). "In a typical district, the next US > Representative was chosen by, at most, one out of four or five registered > voters and less than one in six of his or her alleged constituents." > "A majority of those who could have voted refused to. A supermajority > either chose not to vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp. "Yet for > the next two years, that politician will claim to 'represent,' and to > possess legitimate authority to rule, all of them." > The X2012 Project aims to put the lie to those claims. Launched as the > polls closed on Tuesday evening, X2012 is a "branding campaign" which allows > non-voters to dispute the conventional wisdom that their abstention is > rooted in apathy or that it constitutes implicit consent to the existing > system of government. By the time 2012 rolls around, the project hopes to > have millions of non-voters on the record as non-consenting. > A July Rasmussen poll found that only 23% of Americans believe the US > government functions with "the consent of the governed" -- the criterion of > legitimacy set forth by America's founders in the Declaration of > Independence. > > "Thomas Jefferson didn't say 'a majority of the governed,'" says Knapp. > "Even a significant minority of dissenters calls the legitimacy of a > government into question. Some estimates say that fewer than one third of > Americans supported the Revolution at its beginning. We've got a better case > against John Boehner, Harry Reid and Barack Obama than Tom Paine had against > George III." > # # # > The mission of The 2012 Project is to provide a popular/identifiable brand > for, facilitate media coverage of, and support grassroots activism toward, a > boycott of the 2012 US general election. > > > http://bit.ly/ahdbqn > > > > For what its worth, I DO think voter apathy is an issue, while at the > same time thanking every single person who couldn't find the > wherewithal to get off their asses and vote, for doing precisely the > right thing. > > > Apathy? You spout the State's teachings well. > Maybe most realize their vote is meaningless and that the entire charade is > just that. > > Regard$, > --MJ > > A government, at bottom, is nothing more than a gang of men and as a > practical matter most of them are inferior men ... Government is actually > the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one > and even those governments that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, > grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far from wrong to > describe the best government as the common enemy of all decent citizens. -- > H.L. Mencken > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
