{"id":68738,"date":"2016-11-03T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68738"},"modified":"2016-11-03T07:49:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:49:22","slug":"to-vote-or-not-to-vote-quoquo-suffragia-nulla-melior-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68738","title":{"rendered":"To vote or not to vote: quoquo suffragia nulla melior est"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ex-PH2<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s that time we face every four years. Decide what you\u2019re going to do. Are you going to vote this way, or that way, or at all?<\/p>\n

As some of you may recall, earlier this year I said<\/a> you should go and vote.<\/p>\n

I think I said that last year, too, but a couple of people got all toffee-nosed about my saying \u2018you have a duty to vote\u2019, and whined. Well, you do have that duty. <\/p>\n

We have a secret ballot in this country, guaranteed by the USConstitution. It\u2019s secret for a very good reason: it\u2019s no one\u2019s business but yours how you cast your ballot. I hate those surveyors who ask \u2018how did you vote\u2019 at the exits to polling places. I want to cream pie them all. They\u2019ve been desperate in the past to try to influence the elections in favor of their favorite candidate. I used to run into them in Chicago in the precincts and I would always offer to shove their faces into a snowbank or find a cop and they could explain themselves to the cops.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re lucky: we don\u2019t live in a dictatorship. We\u2019ve never had dynastic succession or dictators in this country. We got rid of that in 1776, remember? And it was for a good reason: the European and Russian royal families were all married to each other. They were so inbred they were almost insane. It was for that reason that a laundrywoman became Catherine the Great and Louis XIV and his silly wife lost their heads to the guillotine. WE are rednecks, independent, self-sustaining, self-sufficient badasses, and we don\u2019t like being told what to do, think, eat, read or believe. If that isn\u2019t true, then account for the loud, noisy idjits on the left side of the political fence, the twitterpaters who find fault with everything and hysterically report it ad nauseum, and the desperate need to embed themselves in constant social contact.<\/p>\n

In the USSR, before Gorbachev said publicly \u2018we are bankrupt\u2019, not voting would result in the loss of everything from your housing and place in line at the food shops (not groceries) to maybe your job. That was why the Soviets had a 95% turnout at every election \u2013 well, that and the single party\/candidate, that all figured into the turnout. But it was \u2018do as I say or starve\u2019. Ask Nicki about it some day. She was there before she came here.<\/p>\n

So in my efforts to convince you ungrateful little twirps that you should get off your blubbery butts and spend a few minutes at the polling place of your choice, I ran across this video, which you should watch in its entirety. <\/p>\n

This young lady, MissMisanthropist, has several good points and makes them plain with this statement of hers: I don\u2019t know who I\u2019ll vote for, or even if I will vote, but damaging something that belongs to other people over it is wrong. <\/p>\n

MissMisanthropist is miles ahead of the fools stealing campaign signs out of people\u2019s yards and laughing about it. <\/p>\n

The destructive behavior of the thieves is not simply the kind of spoiled brat behavior you expect from 7-year-olds who\u2019ve never learned good manners and fairness. It\u2019s their fear of losing that makes them unwilling to compete in a very, very competitive world and howl loudly, screaming \u2018Unfair! Unfair!\u2019 and throwing malodorous objects around. If you asked them what they\u2019re howling about, they\u2019d probably give you blank looks. I don\u2019t think they really know, unless it\u2019s done only to get attention. They are desperate for that.<\/p>\n

I got the candidates sample ballot list in the mail the other day, looked it over, and realized that not once had either of the other two parties (Libertarian, Green) gotten even a faint nod from the media. No surprise: the marones in the media all want shrillary, even if she drops dead in her tracks. So help me, they\u2019d have her stuffed and propped up in the Oval Office, just to avoid the disappointment of losing. Their level of patience is lower than that of a six-year-old who believes that Santa Claus actually does drive flying reindeer instead of a Humvee. They\u2019ll probably hold rallies if NOT-shrillary wins, and burn their voter registration cards in protest.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the overgrown children in the media will be sad, too, but perhaps their day has finally come and gone and nobody noticed. Their angst will resonate from the pyre of their hurt feelings and the poo flinging will turn them into public nuisances.<\/p>\n

So I will repeat myself: you have a duty to vote, especially in this particular election. Whether you like the candidates or not is immaterial. Not voting at all, staying home and pouting, is the same childish nonsense that the overgrown Libretard children engage in. It puts you exactly at their level. Is that what you want? Not voting is not a protest: it is the same thing as handing the election and the office of President of the U.S. to someone who is far more harmful than anyone we\u2019ve ever seen before. <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t value your freedom of choice enough to get off your dead ass and go vote, do not come crying to me, complaining loudly about the Bad People winning. <\/p>\n

You welshed on the deal. <\/p>\n

You failed your own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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