Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 28, 2013

Voting is the only real way to support the illusion of democracy.

No votin’, no bitchin’.

I suppose he may be right on some level….but it is our right to make the same mistakes over and over….um I mean our right to vote….sorry I got pulled into the dream sequence there for a minute.

It seem’s like voting has become an exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils any more. Its to bad there’s not a none of the above option.

Wasn’t it Einstein that said: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’

Of course, he never had to use windows.There you do the same thing over and over again and maybe get different results.By then you are insane.

As long as government dependent people and dead people keep voting we will suffer with acorns and never a mighty oak.

I love how the cat never gets dislodged from Eddie’s shoulder, no matter what.

Billy Connelly once said “Don’t vote, it encourages them”. I said it as a joke but i took him at his word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58OBTi18bsY

But are we still alive?

Had elections to congress yesterday here in Iceland. Horrible results. This strip couldn’t have been better placed.

To do the same thing over repeatedly and each time expecting different results has many implications. It isn’t the ACT of voting that creates different outcomes; it’s who or what you vote for.

Just in time for the English local elections. (But I’m definitely voting against the incumbents. I don’t want them ‘incumbering’ me any more!)

Eddie must be a Democrat.

If voting could still make a difference they would have outlawed it by now.

@bagbalm “If voting could still make a difference they would have outlawed it by now.”

What do you think the GOP is trying to do with all their lies about (pretty-well non-existent) ‘voter fraud’ and the way they make it more difficult to vote whenever they can?

i voted for bush, got my rights taken with the patriot act. i voted for obama, got more rights taken away. no matter which party i vote for i get the shaft.

nilsson schmilsson

Don’t vote. It only encourages them.

I guess that actually researching the candidates instead of letting someone else tell you how to vote is off the table. Voting party line is a sure recipe for disaster, both parties have become statist.

Omnius, what they are doing may bring the same result. Their candidates are so stubborn and dogmatic, insisting on policies that are batpoop crazy. Refusing even common sense compromise. I don’t think they care if they win elections anymore, if they have to compromise….We’ll see how it works out for them….

heck Eddie, is that all ya can do for all ya been through?

Wiley, just in case you read these comments, Brilliant! Thanks.

The common person’s right to vote is nothing more than another “safety valve” to stave of revolt and revolution, just like freedom of speech and freedom of the press.…Always remember that your vote just counts and nothing more.…It won’t change the world, it may not even bring in reform.…Instead, it just allows the one who voted to “vent their anger” and not much else.…The notion of “popular democracy” is nothing more than an illusion in the modern world.…As long as there are those who hold political power and control how governments function, there will never be such things as “true democracy”—only a veneer of it covering an administrative and bureaucratic dictatorship bent on enforcing their laws and imposing their wills on everybody else, regardless of what the rest of the people think.…So go ahead, believe that your right to vote is sacred and that your vote can change things—as long as you are casting a ballot, you are not firing a bullet, the people’s only true means to implement change and bring in reform.…And as long as you let those who theoretically “represent” you make decisions for you in government, you will never have true democracy—as the folks in Alameda County, California can probably attest when the County Board of Supervisors approved of one of Agenda 21’s aims of banning “single-use” plastic grocery bags without putting that measure to a popular vote of the people and in the process, forever changing the way people live in Alameda County to much of their detriment as the economy around here slowed down some more and people bought less.

The trouble with most political jokes is that they get elected.

Voting is the opium of the masses. Every four years you deaden the pain.

It always amazes me how many people realize that Democracy isn’t working out exactly the way we believe it should and that so many believe we’re on the wrong path as a country, and yet there’s no serious discussion of what to do about it. Does democracy need replacing or just a little tweaking? Why is it considered terrorism/communism/islamofascism etc to suggest fixing something that is clearly broken?

@richardelguru:As if Al Franken wasn’t elected by the votes cast in a car trunk. And don’t forget JFK was elected by the Chicago cemetery voters.

Ballad of Serenity

If nothing else, you vote to try to prevent the worse person getting in. That is not a small thing when you look at some of the candidates of the past half century. And I have always taken the position that voting should be left to the people who will take the time to register and hopefully inform themselves about the issues. Trying to prod uncaring uninformed people into voting is ridiculous. Trying to convince people that voting is pointless is also ridiculous. Hi, Wiley!

I’m not sure if I want to take any life advice from Eddie.

Off point here and too late, but “Bizarro” is pretty good today (I thought).http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Bizarro/

Yeah, me, too. The problem isn’t voting itself. It’s voting for republicans and democrats over and over again that gets the same screw-the-people results every time. Vote for republicans and democrats and you’re guaranteed to get what you’re asking for.

Democracy seems to be working very well….The voters? Don’t get me goin’….Man is it just me? It seems like way too many people just aren’t paying attention…Add to that the paranoid conspiracy folks on the right, and you have hamburger all over the highway…