It's your Fault

Our political system in the United States is broken and it is your fault. Yes, this is a bold and even audacious statement, but it is a fact. We, as a collective of voters in the USA, do not ply the greatest gift our country has given us. According to the Pew Research Center, voter turn out for the 2012 presidential election for the United States was a dismal 53.6%. As citizens of the United States we should be ashamed and mortified that a higher percentage of registered voters do not value the precious right to vote and help elect the person(s) we want to represent us and be our voice. This lack of voting by our citizens is shameful, humiliating, disgraceful and frankly down right embarrassing. Those of us that do vote should be pressing our peers and acquaintances to vote in any and all elections they are able to vote in. You say you do not like any of the candidates so why vote. Well, here is an epiphany for some of you. Your vote is actually worth 2 votes. If you vote for someone, then they opposing party needs 2 votes to wrest your vote into the positive column. That is right. You, as a voter, have unparalleled power to help or hurt whomever you vote for. If you think that your single vote does not count for anything, then remember that you have an untapped power that was given to you as a citizen.

By not voting citizens are merely giving into "the man", the elite top 1% and those already in charge. Non voters are just sheep following and allowing themselves to be led. Therefore, they have ZERO right to complain about our current stagnant, broken and corrupt political system. Our political system is infected with cronyism, corruption (to a degree), stagnation, influenced by money, ineptitude and mired in bipartisanship strife. But guess what? WE have the power to change it. All we have to do is vote. Voting is the constituents megaphone and the volume control is directly related to YOUR vote. A lot of the problems in our political system can be changed but we have to turn up the volume. Simply electing a president will do little or nothing to further a cause you believe in. The system is already broken with and our top leader(s) now have little to no power to make relevant changes. The presidency has effectively become a token position in regards to making relevant and lasting change.

It is within our power as voters to make change. We alone have the ability to elect representatives that will make change and replace people who are ineffective in their duties as elected officials. We alone have the ability to hold our representatives accountable! By not voting all we do is perpetuate the ineffectiveness which our political system has fallen into. We, as citizens, are at fault for allowing for the current political situation to get where it is today. When we look in the mirror and ask why are things so screwed up, then that image you see is the reason why. We, as voters, need to influence the non voters to use their power and vote. Each and every person who votes is a Spartacus in their own right. Alone a voter can sow the seeds of the revolution of change which we desperately need. Our democratic system needs to be fixed and only we, as citizens, can do this.

If you vote, then congratulations and thank you. If you do not vote, then shame on you and shame on your peers or acquaintances for not pushing you to vote and exercising one of the best gifts this country has given its citizens. We are all superhero's with great power. We just need to recognize use the considerable power given to us as citizens. We need to stop being sheep, led around by the elites like so many farm animals. We need to VOTE and turn up the volume of our collective megaphone.

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