After voting in every Presidential election since 1964
Here Are 5 Reasons Why I’m Not Voting This Year
by David L Lewis as observed these now 81 years
#1 No, My Vote Really Doesn't Count
In last Presidential election our County voted apx, 90% for the winning Party. The winners don’t need my vote, and it wouldn’t help the other guys. And, there are no ‘None-of-the-Above’ choices available to honest voters in Honest Abe Indiana.
#2 Flipping Coin Won’t Do Any Good
Americans by law and tradition are free to attack any sitting President or candidate therefor. The three Presidents judged our greatest -- Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt – are said to be the three most hated and reviled during their administrations. Seems Presidents can’t even please half the people half the time no matter how coins flip.
#3 I’ve Done My Bit With Nothing Good/Bad Having Come Of It
Taught since childhood the answer is to vote. This I have done beginning at age 21years, 2 weeks, 5 days; never missing a Presidential election. Only two times have I voted for those other guys; both friends in their Primaries, they lost. None of my votes have meant my candidates’ promises were fulfilled. It is not all all clear we’d be better off if they had won. It is not at all clear we would not have been better off with those two other guys.
#4 The System Don’t Work Anyhow
As President Harry Truman supposedly said, “No problem which actually has a solution gets to the President’s desk. Someone lower down on the pyramid has already solved it.” I’ve lived long enough, am historian enough, and watched these politicians close enough to observe that if the problem could be solved, it would already be solved. And, from this observation, claiming they can solve all problems seems the campaigning formula for both a one Party and/or multiple Party governments. Upon through review it appears hope changes nothing, and my vote won’t change that.
#5 I Won’t Be Here When The Work Needs Doing
In the 1970’s we were attending a small church group which had grown large enough to hold vote on whether to buy their own building. I did not vote one way or another. When asked why not, I explained we were leaving the area soon and I would not be there to do the work. As one with living memory of eleven Presidents come and go, I feel somewhat that way about coming Presidential election. Whatever happens, with Hospice folks schlepping through the house 4 to 5 times a week, I may well not be available to do the work.
Of course if “None-of-the-Above” were on ballot, I’d vote for him/her/it...
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