Quote Originally Posted by Cowhead418
Any chance David Palmer is on the ticket? I used to be so excited that I'd be able to vote in this next election (I'm currently 16), but I've come to hate politicians so much that I just don't care anymore. Ah, American politics - where you vote not for you like best, but for who you hate least.
You do realize, of course, that not voting is our age group's most aggravating problem. We are beaten over, robbed of our wages for some nonsensical taxes and social programs that'll never see the light of day, programs that actually benefit us are cut every time somebody wants to be "balanced budget advocate," our future prospects, and all sorts of highway robbery and nobody cares because we don't vote anyway.

It's the old people that get all those fat money from ye olde government, Medicaid, Social Security, and all that. Because they vote; those bloody partisan retirees with too much time in their hands, them. You see them lot every political convention out there, wearing stupid party shirts, waving dumb flags, giving standing ovations to every low-brow partisan demagoguery, electing in said idiotic demagogues, so they could get all the money the government robbed from their grandchildren. :P

Of course, once I vote ("if"), I'll be theoretically held accountable for whatever scummery my elected overlord decides to act upon (aka the German people voted Hitler in, it's their fault the Holocaust happens!), a guarantee for almost all the politicians out there. Which explains why many don't vote.