XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: erj66@xs4all.nl   
      
   On 13-01-2004 15:11, in article bu0u70$rcm$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu, "Brother   
   Nate"  wrote:   
      
   > Eric Johnson wrote:   
   >> Brother Nate wrote:   
   >>> Since your vote and your influence on the American political process   
   >>> are inevitably flushed down the toilet you can believe whoever you   
   >>> want without making any difference.   
   >   
   >> Why is that, Nate. I vote Republican in nearly every case.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Please explain.   
   >   
   > There are at least 2 ways to flush a vote down the toilet.   
   > The first is to throw it away voting for some shmoe who's   
   > never going to win.  The second is to cast it for someone   
   > who just isn't going to enact the policies you want no   
   > matter what.   
      
   This assumes I am a I issue candidate, which I am definitely not. Neither   
   side represents my views on drugs, so how is voting for a candidate who   
   agrees with me on 200 other political issues which are important but   
   disagrees about drugs throwing a vote away?   
      
      
   Do you find candidates who agree with you on every issue under the sun on   
   your ballot? I don't. One has one's choices and one makes them.   
      
   I voted for Bush in 2000. It has brought tax cuts and an end to the   
   inheritance tax, two things which matter in the lives of my family and I a   
   hell of a lot more than drug prohibition.   
      
   Remember this is a "drug-politics," board. That is why the topic is always   
   drugs in relation to politics.   
      
   You can find me in comp.sys.mac.portables, too, if you wish. I don't talk   
   about which candidate supports what drug legislation there. But I am pretty   
   sure you have made disparaging remarks about Macintosh and the people who   
   buy them, so your not likely to look me up there.   
      
   I have been a lifelong party/grass roots Republican during the time when   
   Nevada became a Republican State. I have been elected delegate to central   
   committee and convention.   
      
   How much more broad can my participation get?   
      
   If I supported someone who has a chance of winning, you say I am throwing   
   away my vote.   
      
   Yet you also say if I vote for my pet policy, that is throwing it away as   
   well, as that guy won't win.   
      
   Under this scenario, why should I bother?   
      
   EJ   
      
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