Improved Clinch

Obligatory Election Day Post

If an individual chooses not to vote, they can expect questions regarding why this is so, as evidenced here, or they can be told to shut up, as evidenced here.

Some individuals are quite eloquent in their explanations for why they do not vote, as evidenced here, here, and here.

Other individuals provide more straightforward reasonings for not voting, while at the same time providing economic examples for their rationale.

I’d wager, big, that all of these individuals, like myself, have taken some flack for not voting. For each individual, and others like them, and myself, I offer the following, as a response to those who bang the drums to get out there and vote and gnash their teeth at our individual choice.

"When you are declaiming from the rostra, some one may say to you: “What! man, have you forgotten what all these things you are so keen about amount to?” “True,” say you; “but others seek them eagerly.” “But,” comes the answer, “is that a reason why you should be a fool, too?"

Quote from:

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book V, pg. 72

Posted by on 11/02 at 06:48 PM