Today is Federal Budget day in Canada, and
Election Day in some parts of the United States.
For political geeks, today/tonight might be the equivalent of multiple orgasms (or, you know, so I may have heard 🙃)….
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Answer 20: As noted by Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams.com)
"You can have your personal beliefs, but
you can still vote for people who can create opportunities for others to have THEIR beliefs…."
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Answer 19: As noted by Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg ), "Get your --- up and vote!…
If only sixty people are in a room…
and only twenty are ordering food,
guess what you gonna eat: What the twenty people ordered!
Pick your ------- menu up!"
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Answer 18: Voting is the instrument of my objectivity
about issues, about long-term goals,
about the best-and-most-capable person
(rather than blindly ordering the "Number Four Combo").
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Answer 17: Vote so that -- regardless of whether
you voted FOR the person -- you know: As soon as the winner
takes their office, the person works for (and represents) YOU!!
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Answer 16: With consideration of something noted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
voting reduces the risk that lies become a pillar of the State.
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Answer 15: As Toby Keith observed,
"…everybody should have an opinion and
everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on."
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Answer 14: Being engaged in democracy is like
any personal relationship: For the relationship to be mutually beneficial,
I, too, must put in SOME effort.
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Answer 13: Voting is a good thing, even if
it is less about voting for a Messiah,
and more about "God help us all…"….
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Answer 12: Voting reduces the risk of going from #ZeroToPinochet in a hundred days (and/or of being thrown into a foreign gulag).
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Answer 11: Seeing -- in person -- what voting is like
might cause me to volunteer to improve the voting process
(and not just when voting for a party leader requires standing in line for three hours).
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Answer 10c: To paraphrase Landon Jones (Former Managing Editor, People Magazine),
I should vote and be active in my community
(rather than being a celebrity worshipper).
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Answer 10b: Therefore, voting is the start of my role
in making my neighbourhood, my municipality, my province/state, my nation
better.
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Answer 10: Voting in municipal, provincial/state, and federal elections
is MUCH more productive than what I might accomplish
in "voting" about anything in social media or as a reaction to some trivial broadcast.
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Answer 09b: My related research into each relevant candidate
might cause me to recognize insights from unexpected sources (Natural Law Party printed platform; Parti Rhinocéros (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoce... )).
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Answer 09: My related research into each relevant candidate
(including attending debates and "town halls") is
an opportunity for me to contemplate new approaches to issues that concern me and my neighbours.
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Answer 08: Voting is my tribute to laws
that require my employer to give me time off work to vote (e.g.: www.elections.ca/content2.asp... ,
www.elections.ab.ca/voters/how-t... ).
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Answer 07: I get to annoy those who -- in their quest
to disempower those they despise -- spend time and resources in removing from voter lists
those who did not vote in the last election.
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Answer 06: If my philosophy is somewhat governed by
"Which is worse: Ignorance or Apathy? I do not know, and I do not care…"…
Diffidence is inconsistent with being an active, aware participant of the democratic process.
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Answer 05b: Therefore, two-thirds (66%) of the voting age populace either
voted directly against the "winner" or
chose not to "support the person by voting".
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Answer 05: One who wins an election really does not have
the majority they claim -- fifty-five percent of the vote (when only sixty percent of the adult population voted)
means "winner" only has one-third support of the voting age populace.
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Answer 04: Every vote counts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Answer 03 Note 02: …and voting helps "…create leaders who embody virtues we can respect,
who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud
with an enthusiasm that enables us to rally support for them based on confidence and trust..."
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Answer 03 Note 01: To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
voting is a way "… to demand high standards and give consistent, loyal support
to those who merit it…".
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Answer 03 Example 02: For positions like school trustee, it makes sense
to vote for someone who has actual education and experience
(rather than someone who merely has an agenda that they want to force others to follow).
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Answer 03 e.g.: In an election for anything, a former elected official having a record of laziness, of lying, of fraud (and evading the consequences thereof) should never again be elected.
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Answer 03: I am being given the opportunity to ensure
those who should not be given access to power and/or the public purse
do NOT receive such access by default nor by collective diffidence.
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Answer 02: If I do not participate with the bare minimum of a vote,
I have no right to complain when bad decisions are made
by those entrusted to act on my behalf.
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Answer 01: It is in keeping with the long tradition of democracy
as started in (among other places) Ancient Greece, in which
decisions were made after collectively considering opportunities and ramifications.
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2025-11-04 U.S. elections reminders:
Learn/Research about EACH candidate.
Know vote options/requirements (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_... ).
Vote for most-qualified, honest candidate, NOT party nor leader.
Remain engaged in democracy.
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