George Carlin: I don’t vote
Here is George Carlin’s take on voting (offered without comment from my side):
I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around – they say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain’, but where’s the logic in that?
If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.”
As Atanu Dey is wont to state: we get politicians we deserve. Money quote from Carlin, “This is the best we can do, folks. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.“