Ranty Sunday Afternoon

[GirlinContempt]

Tomorrow is election day, and I just reminded my room mate that our polling station is in the high school we live next to.
Her response? "Oh, I threw away my voter registration card, I'm not even voting."
When I asked why not? "Well because all the parties have some good ideas but I don't support just one. If I did bother to go I'd just spoil my ballot."

Yeah, ok, you know what? This really comes down to not bothering to pay attention to ANYTHING that's been going on, not bothering to look in to the different candidates, and being a lazy ****.
That shit makes me mental. We're asked to step outside (In our case, it's about 25 feet from our door) once every few years and spend 15 minutes making choices about our own destiny. Debate the corruption of the system all you want, that's fine, but when it comes right down to it it's the best we've got and you could at *least* make a statement by spoiling your ballot. People DIE, are tortured, jailed, etc. for wanting things like elections or free speech or newspapers, and you can't even pick up a paper to read about whats happening in your own fucking country, let alone get off your self-absorbed bourgeois ass to make a choice?

It's infuriating. If she says ANYTHING about politics to me between this vote and the next, she is getting a verbal smack down such as she has never encountered before. Sort of like she bitches about her sweet unionized position where she gets paid too much and does nothing, because even though she's never attended a single union meeting, she just *knows* the union is bad and doesn't like it. You know, it's not like they're responsible for her getting paid double minimum wage to sit on her ass and chat with people in a gym or anything, or they do anything good like get her benefits and extended vacation :eyes: fuck the union I can't be bothered to go to a single meeting ever. :mad:

I had this debate with another friend, about the union thing, and he pointed out some people just don't care about unions, and he had no problem with that. Well, guess what? I was right. That kind of 'entitlement' attitude is never just confined to one thing, and it's selfish short sighted bullshit.