This is the message that countless United States citizens are sending across their country. The entertainment & music industry, the sports fraternity, leaders of countries are asking for the US citizens to get out there & make a difference. Google has also been helping by pushing the message home through YouTube & 2008 US Voter Info.
“There’s a lot of buzz about turnout this year, but one in four Americans still aren’t registered to vote,” Google said on its website, citing US Census data.
Why?
The simple reason is, if you don’t take the effort to have a say in how your country is run, then you don’t deserve the privilege of complaining. Yeah, yeah, don’t get up in arms about how little your vote counts, or how there is no one you want to vote for, or even your lack of faith in anything politically motivated. These are lame ass excuses reserved for those that think it is better to sit back & whinge that it is to get out there and make a difference. So what if the person you vote for doesn’t get in! It’s already happened hasn’t it!
Al Gore never took his rightful place at the helm of the world’s most powerful country. George Bush did. All those people that voted for Gore got duped, and the voters could be thinking “why bother”. You bother because we would have never known that Al Gore was the preferred choice. We do now. Now think about the outcome of that election if everyone had registered and voted. How different would the last 8 years have been? Think about it…. did you vote?
As much as I respect Al Gore & admire his work, I have no idea if he would have made a better president. But if more people had voted, the US would have had a better indication to decide on after the Florida debacle.
Voting is compulsory in Australia where I hail from. You don’t vote you get fined. While some may find this a violations of our rights, I’ve never seen it as such. As long as I vote I know that I have had my say. Even a donkey vote (an invalid vote) is a ‘voice’. For many years I voted “none of the above”. The votes mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, but I had my say. As the years went on I found candidates I wanted running my country (not the idiot now, but that’s another story!), so my votes were put to good use.
Voting isn’t hard. It’s your voice. It’s your country. It’s your children. It’s your family. It’s your career & education. IT’S YOUR OBLIGATION!
But as the video’s say…. REGISTER FIRST! No point in taking the effort to go to vote & you haven’t registered. It ends soon. REGISTER NOW!