Friday
Jul092004
Block the Vote
Friday, July 9, 2004 at 03:25PM
A modest proposal for shortening the lines on Election Day
I am 28 years old and I've never voted in a single election. Not one. As a young college student, I came to believe that electoral politics were a plot orchestrated by capitalists to keep the working class blind to the corrupt machinations of the capitalist machine. But alas, having suffered four years under the tyrant Bush, I have come to understand the responsibilities of citizenship. I now can grasp the solemn trust that all Americans are charged with, and that includes voting. [more]
I am 28 years old and I've never voted in a single election. Not one. As a young college student, I came to believe that electoral politics were a plot orchestrated by capitalists to keep the working class blind to the corrupt machinations of the capitalist machine. But alas, having suffered four years under the tyrant Bush, I have come to understand the responsibilities of citizenship. I now can grasp the solemn trust that all Americans are charged with, and that includes voting. [more]