Trust in politics!
I learned today that some people don’t believe in voting.
Someone’s just made a speech and you think you should clap, but you’re afraid to start the clap. And no one else claps, so then that’s wonderful. And awkward. And silent.
We expect others to take initiative, we trust in others to make the right choice. Well that just means we’re lazy.
One time, there was a woman. And she got raped in an alleyway, where 10 people lived. They were all at home. No one helped, no one called the police.
That doesn’t mean they were bad people: they just thought the other person would take control.
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Same thing goes for voting. There are four types of people when it comes to voting: Type 1: those who don’t care about the issues and don’t vote
Type 2: those who care about the issues and don’t vote
Type 3: those who don’t care about the issues and vote
Type 4: those who care about the issues and vote
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Type 1
Q: I never vote. Politics doesn’t affect me, right?
A: It does actually: Taxes affect you!
Q: Noot really actually..mine stay pretty much the same. And like what difference does it make?
A: But if everyone like that voted, it would make a difference.
Q: Except that’s never going to happen. Like, ever.
(True story. This actually happened)
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Type 2
“I really disagree with Obama’s stance on healthcare (Welcome to the republican party, honey). It sucks. And yet, it doesn’t really matter what I think, does it? Cause I don’t matter.”
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Type 3
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Type 4
*takes a day to read CNN about the issues, and then goes around asking their friends and respected others what they think.*
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Votes aren’t unbiased. Ever. They come from biased opinions, from the news or from friends. Sorry, it’s true.
What if each person trusted eachother for just one day?
For the ten minutes it takes to go to a voting booth? Trust that other people would vote too, and that it wouldn’t just be the white people, or the rich people, or the old people, but that it would be everyone, and what everyone thought?
Trust me, it could work!
