This board is truly bizzaro world. People who claim to own multimillion dollar international businesses don't see the value in things like contributing a few bucks to your local politicians' campaigns in exchange for personal favors? Or voting for and supporting the capitalist over the socialist? Or that the fall of a nation like the US will affect every corner of the globe catastrophically?
I always vote, even if it's for a lesser of 2 evils. Neither party is perfect, and no candidate ever is.
I'll pick the candidate who's a little more outgoing about his religious beliefs than the other candidate if the first candidate is more likely to let me keep half the money I earn and not wipe their ass with the Constitution, and still believes in some form of free market capitalism over big govt socialism.
I don't vote on religion, abortion, or gay marriage - I have libertarian-ish opinions on those issues, but they are pretty much non-issues when it comes to my vote. Unless someone is advocating flying planes into buildings, stoning to death rape victims, and beheading homosexuals, these wedge issues are of no real concern to me either way.
I cannot begin to understand the minds of those who spend countless hours and thousands of posts arguing politics (often those of foreign nations) yet don't even vote?
