Anyone Else Here Apoltical?

[nailit]

Can't remember the last time that I voted, all a shower of sh**!

[shoota]

I was and I would like to be so again but I fear that it has become essential to keep the left away from any positions of influence, especially government.

[Theland]

Then vote for the lesser of two evils maybe?
One wants to screw you, the other only wants to screw you a bit :-(

[nailit]

//Then vote for the lesser of two evils maybe?//
Should I vote for the Christian hell or the Muslim hell?
Mmmm, its a quandry?

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst the last part of the OP I have great sympathy with, Brexit ensured I couldn't give up encouraging them quite yet. As for the future... well whoever you vote for, the damned government always gets in.

[nailit]

//well whoever you vote for, the damned government always gets in//
LOL

[JimF]

I've always voted. I'm one of those who believe that those who don't automatically forfeit their right to complain about the result.

[Theland]

I'm sure you are going to heaven.

[nailit]

//I'm sure you are going to heaven//

Stick for me im afraid. No carrot!

[alavahalf]

May you go to heaven .. a half hour before the devil knows your dead !

[woofgang]

I don't think voting makes me apolitical.....just not apathetic. I do my due diligence and decide who to vote for on the basis of what I think of that they offer and what I think about how likely they are to do what they say and then I vote. Occasionally I abstain but I do it deliberately.

[woofgang]

oops "makes me political"

[pixie374]

I always have been. There has never been anyone I really agree with, so I wouldn't encourage them by voting. Unlike jimf, I believe in the right to abstain, if nobody is representing you, it's the only way anything can change and voting for the 'least worse' is just not something I could bring myself to do.
Having said that, i wanted Brexit, so voted (and had to 3x in total) to achieve that.

[JimF]

"Unlike jimf, I believe in the right to abstain"

For the record, so do I nor did I say that I didn't. What I said was is that I believe that those who don't vote forfeit their right to complain about the outcome, which they had an opportunity to influence but chose not to.

[pixie374]

Same thing.... choosing not to a vote as there is nobody appropriate, doesn't mean you can't say so.

[JimF]

Same thing? Of course it's the same thing! I've said it twice now, as you appeared not to understand the first time.

Nor the second...

[pixie374]

Jimf, I was referring to this part... //I'm one of those who believe that those who don't automatically forfeit their right to complain about the result//.

I disagree with that.

[Ellipsis]

> all a shower of sh**

I always vote, and now and again I write something like the above across my ballot paper.

I agree with it, but ... we get the politicians we deserve.

[ToraToraTora]

A political what?

[Mozz71]

I tend to vote against the one I don't want to win, rather than for the one I do.