Lets call our two-party-government "democracy". It will be fun.
Is it the same as voting for mtv awards ? If i don't like any of the "chosen" artists do I still have to vote ?
It can surely save me countless hours of mind numbing music.
Is it the same as voting for mtv awards ? If i don't like any of the "chosen" artists do I still have to vote ?
It can surely save me countless hours of mind numbing music.
Not being involved in the political process just completely removes any influence you have on the process and the outcomes. However, if your belief is that not voting is the right thing to do, then by all means, please abstain from voting. I'd rather only have engaged people vote anyway.
EDIT/Clarification: We don't have a pure democracy in the United States. We have representative democracy and a republic as pointed out below.
"Representative democracy" tells you how decisions are made--we select a few citizens to make decisions on our behalf. "Republic" tells you who is sovereign--in the U.S. the individual citizens have the right and power to rule, and have used that to construct our own government.
Counter examples:
The U.K. is a representative democracy, but not a republic. It's a monarchy.
North Korea is a republic but it's not a democracy. It's an autocracy.
Not very democratic eitherway.
I never claimed I wanted a pure democracy...