dark crystal wrote: » Part of me thinks if someone can't be arsed to inform themsleves about the people making all the decisions that affect their lives, they're better off going nowhere near a ballot box. Personally, I'd rather have some control than just be a passenger and complain about the person at the wheel afterwards.
StewartGriffin wrote: » Voting for the sake of it when you have no real clue why you are voting is not just dumb it's also dangerous. At the moment, and it has been the case for many years, the electoral field in Ireland is so level that a vote is really nothing more than an exercise in peoples constitutional rights. This blandness of political ideology is not a bad thing. When it gets more extreme you get to the level of Trump v Sanders, or more radically, Extreme right wing V extreme left wing. So we shouldn't really complain about our boring candidates because it means we are in a good place. For referenda it is important to vote if the topic is important. For our general elections, your vote doesn't really matter. If candidate A doesn't get in, Candidate B will, and it will make no difference to this country because the wheels of government will keep turning thanks to the Civil Servants who have always turned them. The people who give out to those who don't vote, are generally just fools, especially those who drool at the mouth and proclaim that you have forfeited your right to have an opinion about anything. If the choice was between Hitler and Stalin these fools would still turn out to vote for one of them.
nehe milner skudder wrote: » best post I've read in a long time
NIMAN wrote: » Yeah cos being forced to go to your local polling station once every 5 years would be such hard work.
strelok wrote: » i take it you'll not be complaining about president trump in 2017?
Elessar wrote: » Anyone else not vote in this general election? I honestly have no interest in politics at all and haven't the foggiest about any of the candidates in my area, never even heard of half of them. I do vote in general, with issues I care about i.e. constitutional changes, but politics? Nope. No interest. I got a stern talking to from family earlier and put on a guilt trip about it, but I'm sticking to my guns. Anyone else not bothered?
Your Face wrote: » Can't vote - working.
Mint Sauce wrote: » What, for 14/15 hours? I'm sure even if you were at work for that long, your employer would have to let you leave to vote if you wanted too.
Patww79 wrote: » Never registered as I really just don't care about doing something that won't make a pick of difference. Probably wouldn't take long to read up on what they're falsely promising this time round but I don't see any of them as worthy of a vote, they're all just stealing a very good living.
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Your Face wrote: » I d rather put food on the table.
josephryan1989 wrote: » You have the freedom to be clueless. It's a free country. But how you could not take an interest in politics or inform yourself about the candidates in your constituency is beyond me. Grow up and start taking an interest in what's going on around you. Do you ignore weather forecasts or know how to read the time? For me that's how dumb not taking an interest in politics is like.
Patww79 wrote: » If he has no chance then why waste 20-40 minutes of your day to go and vote for him? Likewise with wasting your time on a protest vote. The thing is we all have a vote, but none of us have a voice.
Dinny Byrne has Angina wrote: » It's your fault. It's very easy for a man of average intelligence to formulate an opinion based on his impression of several political candidates running for election. Your duty, as far as I care, is to inform yourself. It isn't for the State to rush to your education and exhaust its own resources in informing you personally. There is plenty of information in the public sphere, should you wish to avail it. Don't expect anyone to come to your defence. It's probably just as well that people of this mentality refrain from voting.
