Posted by Isis at 132.236.35.61 on February 04, 2002 at 16:10:24:
In Reply to: Yo isis.. posted by Young Nasty Man on February 04, 2002 at 15:37:30:
Don't worry about that, you actually have a very decent point; I just thought you were using your personal experience to make judgments about people you don't know anything about.
However...
: Voting works kids, its all you got...If you dont like the way things are..GET INVOLVED...
I disagree that voting's all we've got. If it is, then we're royally fucked and we know it. Gore was elected by a clear majority of the popular vote, yet got screwed by illicit, unfair practices in one state that swung the electoral college (an antiquated, aristocratic, rich-white-man-biased system that should have been chucked hundreds of years ago) in the direction it did -- if voting's all we've got, then we ain't got shit.
It's quite easy to be active in one's community, there are any number of issues that you can jump in on. I think it's just as foolish to cast a ballot every four years, do no other activism, and expect things to change. We could all stand to do a little less complaining and a little more work, me included. True enough.