VOTING!!!!

[shawnsegler]

Nuff said, true believers.

[Earth_Monkey]

Thank you Shawn glad I got some understanding as to why i dont vote. I knew it was a bad thing all along just could not figure out why.

[Dmitri]

He certainly has a point.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

that's getting shared on facebook! lol

[bailewen]

He certainly has a point.

Which is actually why there are so many failsafes in our constitution to prevent that sort of stuff. It's part of we have gridlock all the time. Things like veto power or the filibuster. They are there to protect the rights of minorities from the tyranny of the majority. That's also why we have the concept of unalienable rights. You can't vote them out of existence.

So he may be talking about what a pure democracy could theoretically work like but if they voted to do things to you with knives you could read the phone book until they changed their mind or a judge might find that their desire to do those things was in violation of your constitutional rights and then the state would have to send in the national guard to prevent those people from doing all that stuff.