I hope no one reading this is one of them.
I feel really bad for any first time voters out there who decided to finally have their voice heard, only to have someone at a school gym or local church tell them that they can't vote because their information was invalid.
Rich people will always vote, and poor people will always feel like it doesn't matter. The voter apathy game is what it's all about. Poor people vote Republican in hopes of keeping their money, not realizing that the rich people have no intentions of giving them raises. They want to keep their money too. A progressive system of taxation gives more money to the workers and the consumers which they happily spend into the market because they have so much. This allows the money to trickle up to the rich. It's not magic, it's common sense. Taxing the poor more than the rich only makes the poor poorer and the rich richer.
There's a hell of a lot more poor people in this country than rich. And if they all vote for the change THEY need, then this country stands a chance of being something truly amazing.
This election has put quite a few interesting things in perspective for me. It keeps making me think about how 2000 was an election about issues. About Abortion, Guns, Taxes, Healthcare, Social Security. All valid but none life threatening. All choice. But who were the candidates? Gore and apparently Spider-Man's most underrated nemesis: Demogoblin.
This time it's beyond just a simple personal preference. Supply Side/Voo Doo/Reagenomics has sent this country down the toilet by gutting its infrastructure and sending it overseas, then ripping out the life blood from the stock market. How does a president go eight years without generating one new job?
This time people can't afford not to vote.
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