If you think politicians are boring, corrupt or worse there are only three ways that you can fix this:
1) Accept permanent mediocrity and abandon hope for the future (unacceptable)
2) Form your own political movement (very hard work)
3) Vote (not for a perfect candidate or party, since none exist, but for the one that’s closest to you)
People around the world are literally suffering and sacrificing their lives for the ability to vote.
If you are too lazy or moronic to grasp what is going on and don’t have committed plans to actually go out to vote, please move to Libya, Ivory Coast, or Venezuela.
If you live in a riding where “your 1 vote won’t count”, that is utter rubbish. 41% of Canadians didn’t vote last time, which is more than the total # of votes that elected the current governing party. If you think that the official opposition, the government, or some other party in Ottawa stinks, people who didn’t vote in the last election have the ability to overpower ANY of the parties currently in Canada. Any of them. Your vote does matter tremendously.
If you can’t find a ride to a voting booth or have some other logistical excuse, call any political party and tell them that you’d like to to vote for their party but that you don’t know how to get to the booth. They will literally get you to the booth. Once in the booth, you can vote for whoever you want. By Canadian law, who you vote for in the voting booth is private, unmonitored, and 100% unaccountable to anyone (other than the fact that it elects the next government, which hence decides how much to tax you, which foreign countries to invade, where to build a transit station, etc.)
The point is simple though: it is easy and important to vote.
This is a non-partisan appeal, Canada, to get off your duffs and V-O-T-E on May 2nd, 2011.
