howeird: (satan claus)
howard stateman ([personal profile] howeird) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2008-10-03 01:04 am (UTC)

You're right. People should vote. But you're wrong about not voting leading to harder drugs. Name me one country where democracy stopped because people stopped voting. One. Just one.

I can't think of any. But I can name you several where democracy stopped even though people voted. Cuba. Soviet Union. Philippines. Thailand. Bolivia. Colombia.

Dual citizenship is possible in the US, I'm not sure about the UK other than the Commonwealth thing. Your local US embassy would have information on that. But I don't think you'll be able to do it in time to register to vote in this election, the deadline is Saturday.

I still say I did more good by marching in protests and helping take over the campus radio station and newspaper during the Vietnam war than any votes I cast in the subsequent mumblemumble years.


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