Posted by
Icarus on Sunday, October 12, 2008 11:12:38 PM
What if they held an election and no one showed up?
That is the question we will soon be asking as absentee voting is stretched much further.
Jeff Jacoby argues persuasively points out the problems of absentee voting, and rightly mocks some of the reasons why people will not go to a polling place on Election Day.
" 'A lot of people are busy,' [President Bill Clinton] said, 'and it's hard for them to just get there and vote.' BeAbsentee.org, a website created this year to encourage voting by mail, offers 10 reasons
to embrace absentee ballots. Among them: 'You have better things to do
on Election Day,' 'You do not have to stand in line,' and 'It might
rain on Election Day.'
...
"Especially pernicious is another of BeAbsentee.org's reasons to vote early: 'You can make your decision and move on. Enough with this election already!'
Jacoby properly wonders,
"Are some citizens so uninterested in political affairs that they won't
bother to cast a ballot unless they can do it from their living room
couch, or are given a month-and-a-half to get around to it? Yes. But
what is gained from encouraging such lazy or apathetic people to vote?"
I'll hazard a guess that was is gained is greater government control over our lives.
What is the literal definition of absentee? "To be absent". And was does absent mean? It means, according to
Merriam-Webster, "not present or attending
, lost in thought, not attentive." So the greatest nation on God's Green World is going to hand the power to decide who will run its government to a bunch of people who are "lost in thought, who refuse to be present, who are "not attentive".
And that is exactly why the radical Leftists are about to become the most powerful people in America.