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A change in the future of American politics?

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vicious796:
But that's the point to - and beauty of - a silent ballot. You don't have to reveal who you voted for or why or if you even did it at all. Laziness trumps all as well as ignorance. Ask any random group of 18-24 year olds to name you 5 senators, the name of their State Governor, or how many reps they have in the House for their state, and I promise you at least 95% of them can't answer those questions. They don't know and - for the most part - don't care. What we have here is a minority of informed (or partially informed) youths with a mix of less youths in an anonymous internet forum discussing politics. We are a minority. I promise you my fiance can't name the Governor of our state and almost all of my friends that are my age (23) couldn't tell you that there's an election going on for Governor right now and it's very, very heated.

Kids in Student Unions and mock Governments are very special kids indeed. Most of them do it for reasons other than to help their fellow students, you're right. They know that it'll look fantastic on a resume later and they can bull shit their way through an interview about things they "organized" and did. However, the real world is cruel. Life outside of school is cut-throat because (in theory) your lifecord from your parents is cut off and you have to fend for yourself. Lies and fabricated truths can only take you so far in the real world until you get exposed and someone takes your job, family, or life. If you can go through that Student Union or Government and learn from it, not just put it on a resume and BS about it, then you're in a better spot in life.

If you can't, you just wasted time.

nstgc:
By nature I'm the sort of person who speaks up and pisses people off, however, the current situation in the US is well beyond me. I'm definitely among those ill-informed and lazy people mentioned. I also, for that reason, don't vote.

The republican party is full of shit heads, Ron Paul aside, there is no one I would vote for (and he's in Texas). The Democrats are even worse in my minds with their love of large government. Until the way we elect our representatives changes, discussions like this are pointless. I'm not talking about the electoral collage (so long as they vote with the voters), which I agree with (its because we are a republic of states). In my state we have retards pitted against retards at all levels. For the presidential election, we had Obama and McCain, two equally bad choices (although I'm starting to wish McCain won). Are there no good people to lead are country or is there some group of puppet masters putting hundreds of billions of dollars into ensuring that no one worth voting for ever has a chance?

[edit] I should also mention that I consider myself a "true" Republican in that I believe in small government and minimal involvement in general. My actual party is closer to Libertarian.

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