America is what is known as a representative democracy. This basically means we don't directly make many of the choices that govern our everyday lives. Instead we elect the people to make those decisions for us. There is nothing inherently wrong with this set up. So long as you keep an eye on what your representatives are deciding, and they understand who they work for. In the present day and age this has become complicated by the idea of corporate person-hood, but that is not in the scope or aim of this post to cover.
For the most part it's so far so good. You vote for a person you feel holds your values. They get to work on making sure those values are represented in our collective governing body. The problem comes when the people stop paying attention, or when the ones that are paying attention feel it's beyond their control.
How many times do you hear "I'm not political", or "I don't follow politics". What about this one, "it doesn't really effect me", "I know it's wrong, but I can't do anything about it". This is the opt out of our system. You at this point have given away any power you might have in our present system.
So my question is this.
If you have opted out of the system, why do you think you have deserve a say in it?
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
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