Recently, the Cardinals won the World Series. They played against a team with similar players, management and equipment. But you know who won also? Major League Baseball. You see, it doesn’t matter who wins the World Series every year to MLB, as long as the teams are playing by their rules, MLB always wins. So as another voting deadline approaches, let us reflect on the failures of politicians and let us question why we vote. Whatever your motivations for voting, consider the following: Every vote cast is an endorsement of our system. Think of all the issues you want to vote on because you think something is going wrong. Have you ever thought that the current two-party system is the source of some of these problems? Think about the 2004 election where all the Kerry voters are completely unrepresented in the White House. Almost 50 million American’s voices were negated by a little over 50 million others. Now you tell me if you were one of those Kerry voters if you felt the election result remotely represented your view and, of course, it didn’t. The apparent point of our elections is to elect the best, but what the 50 million Kerry voters did accomplish was to say that the best man won because that’s the reason for the competition. You Kerry voters are just as responsible for Bush’s election as the Republican voters are by participating and supporting the current system. You’re against the Iraq war? Tough – you voters made it legitimate. You want to change the system from within the system, but all that voting does it add fuel to the fire. So stop saying, “yes please give us more of the same,” and join me while I refuse to support this flawed system where the greedy and perverse lord above us. You can do something to change this system on Nov. 2 and join me in burning my ballot at noon at the EMU Amphitheater.
Andy Dolberg is the Publisher of the Oregon Commentator