Why do people complain if they don't vote?

Question

Why do people complain if they don't vote?

Answer 1

I do vote, myself.  But I could see why someone wouldn't vote and still complain.  For example:  Let's vote for the candidate who will tax everyone making over $1,000,000.00 per year at 70% on income, capital gains and estate, get our troops out of Iraq a.s.a.p. and move them to Gaza and Israel to restore Israel to it's pre 1967 borders, work with other nations to set up a global government and global labor union to counterbalance and oversee global corporations...etc.  Oh, there is no such candidate.

Answer 2

The need to participate. And we're using that one right that is always being debated Freedom of Speech. If I thought that my vote counted or mattered in the slightest I might vote. If you think our current President got in office buy votes you are mistaken? I guess when I say the need to participate I mean s***w political correctness tell it like it is, and as far as voting in most cases its nothing but a farce and a tool to make people have a sense of duty or reponsibility no more no less.........

Answer 3

just human nature.  they dont vote, but like to complain about everything.

Answer 4

Because they believe politics is so corrupt that it doesn't matter who gets elected, we still get a corrupt politician leading the country.  Some also refuse to vote so they can complain.  They can say, "I didn't vote for that turkey" no matter who wins then.

Answer 5

It's human nature.

But if you don't vote, don't Bit#h!

Answer 6

Some people just like to B I T A C H.

Answer 7

If they're dumb enough NOT to vote they're dumb enough to complain.

Answer 8

Human Weakness.

Answer 9

everyone has the ability to vote if they are eligible.  The polls are open all day.  You can absentee vote.  They even have satellite voting weeks in advance of election day.  People always have to complain about something but if they don't vote they should shut up.

Answer 10

lots of reasons, they are under age, disabled, live deep in the country and cant afford the gas. don't drive. I'm sure there are more

Answer 11

Human nature

Answer 12

They all suck and your choices are poor. Almost all politicians are traitors that need to be put in prison. Why vote for con-men who sold themselves and this country for money long ago?

Answer 13

I do vote.....have for forty years.......and I vote so I do have voice, and a right to complain.

Answer 14

Some just don't buy the myth.  It can also mean "none of the above" and contempt for or disbelief in the system.  Consider also that voters may think they have no access to or voice in the parts of the system that can deeply affect them, for example the Office of Legal Council which the President uses for advice to circumvent the Constitution.

Some think along these lines and shake their heads at the lamentable defectiveness of a haywire system.

"Government is big business, with the face of democracy."--Jim West

Politics is a means of preventing people from taking part in what properly concerns them." Paul Valery (1871-1945)

"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, 1883



"Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible." -- Robert LeFevre, in his essay, Aggression is Wrong

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles, 430 B.C.



"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust." -- Demosthenes: Philippic 2, sect. 24



"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power." -- John Adams, 1788



"What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people.  It's not good at much else." -- Tom Clancy on Kudlow and Cramer 9/2/03



"It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want."-- Harry Browne

Answer 15

I don't know, but it drives me crazy.  I tell people that if they do not vote, they waive their right to complain.  Voting is a privilege that people have gone to war for and died for.  So when people don't vote, it's very disrespectful to those folks that put their lives on the line for it.  Shameful.  It's our duty as Americans to vote.  

You know what's funny.  Those people who never vote would complain about it if the right to vote was taken away from them.  How ironic.