Re: Campaign 2016 Part XII: What Have We Done To Deserve This?
So the opinion of the Right is that everyone who doesnt vote is too lazy to do so? You realize it is opinions like that which is why most people think you are uncaring right?
But please, explain to me why it would be so bad that everyone have the day off so they can vote! I mean sure it will probably destroy capitalism and force all small businesses to implode (which is what we hear about anything that seems to help the average person) but putting all that aside what is the harm? Why is it such an affront to all of you that we get the day off so we can vote? Please...list some reasons it is so bad. Who does it hurt...
I'm not sure I qualify as a righty anywhere
other than a USCHO political thread, but I'll give you my reasons, in no particular order:
1. While I think there is an element of laziness in some voters failure to go to the polls, I believe apathy is the much larger cause, and frankly I'm not interested in rewarding apathy with a paid day off of work. If we were seeing 90%+ turnout, and people were waiting in lines for hours to vote and nothing was getting done at the workplace anyway, by all means call a holiday.
2. I think the real push for a paid day off by some, especially on the left, is due to the "get out the vote" cadres they send out each election day. Right now it actually costs them something to do that. People who decide to spend their day laying guilt trips on the apathetic, or even worse, painting horror stories for them if they fail to do their civic duty, have to take a day off of work to do that. It costs them something, and I want it to cost them something because I think the "get out the vote" efforts of
all political parties is pathetic. If you are too stupid, too lazy, to apathetic or just too uninformed to know its election day, to understand the consequences of an election or to get your a s s to the polls without someone threatening you or laying a guilt trip on you, then I don't want you to vote. Stupid, uninformed voters make bad choices, and we don't need more bad choices.
3. I think it is just one more piece of the
Francification effort of the left in this country. There is nothing the left likes better, or promises more of, than more paid days where you don't work, preferably at higher wages. Lets get a permanent, liberal government installed, controlled by public labor unions, while we all sit around at outdoor cafes drinking our lattes and smoking our Gauloises and talking philosophy and rapturing about the glory days of the Republic, 200 years ago. Sorry, not my vision for the country.
4. I hate mid-week holidays. They screw up my work week. You can't do anything on them. Maybe for lefties the idea of getting up on a Tuesday morning, spending 20 minutes voting, then sitting around jerking off to Ellen is a fine excuse for a day, but I've got work to do. Besides, we already have a mid-week federal holiday less than 10 days later.
