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Mr. Huber in your response to my rant on the Cultural Studies website you espoused a form of word logic that can only be attributed to someone lacking in real world experience. I can appreciate your taking the time to put forward your logic but there is a sense of tunnel vision and a misplaced awarness of our form of Democracy.
Given your comments that 'my vote doesn't count' I would exhort you to travel to a country where it's inhabitants (note, I didn't use the term citizens) do NOT have the luxury of saying "my vote doesn't count, hence, why bother."
I understand you are speaking in the first person but if your vote 'doesn't count' then why does your neighbors or your community or your city for that matter? Why should you allow yourself that attitude and not your neighbor?
Not only does your vote count, but you have a responsibilty as a free citizen to use that vote as you see fit. It is your contract signed before birth by people with a wisdom far beyond what you have obtained in your lifetime.
You see, attitude is as important to a citizens excercising their rights as the right itself. You said and I quote "D. Garrison decries the fact that "only" 52% of registered Americans voted in the last elections, but this figure represents millions of people trudging out to the polls." Sounds to me like voting is such a drudgery, waste of time and interruption of things more important. Is that a positive, personal attitude? Is that attitude perhaps contagious? Is that the attitude that keeps 48% of the nations registered voters from excercising their right, nay, responsbility to vote?
M. Huber needs to rethink his logic and perhaps read the Constitution of the United States. His argument would fall flat on the ears of James Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, etc; etc;.
TO WIT:
"The writing of the Constitution of the United States is an act of such genius that Philosophers still wonder at it's accomplishment and envy it's results. Fifty five typical American citizens met and argued for 127 days during a ferociously hot Philadelphia Summer and produced one of the magisterial documents of world history. Almost without being aware of their great achievement, they fashioned a nearly perfect instrument of government. It is a testament to what a collection of typical free men can achieve in the name of freedom."
Your vote Mr. Huber continues to buy us that freedom, every day and every year!
D. Garrison
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