Stop the Vote...
Get out the vote campaigns are damaging our society. Don't give me this crap about "the more people involved in the process the better," it's a load of garbage.
People in general are stupid and the more people you get involved, the more stupid people you get involved.
Need proof?
Fine, two stories...
Don't even get me started on who these wonderful people are going to vote for, nah let me let them do it for you.
Tell me why we should go into a prison and find people who are incapable of playing by our societies' rules and ask them help decide who gets to run this country. Why is some scumbag convict or convicted felon's vote worth as much as mine. The reality is, convicted felon disenfranchisement is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country, but the misuses of it they must be corrected.
Yeah I said "felon disenfranchisement is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country."
The obvious argument against my point that voting should not be encourage or allowed to the homeless, the incarcerated or convicted felons will be...
Those who want to vote will, I say we ban voter registration drives, eliminate "motor voter" and do away with "Rock the Vote." The only way you should be able to register to vote is by going down to the County Board of Registrars and register yourself.
Check out where you can register to vote in Alabama:
And please, stop telling me "voting is cool" or if I don't then I can't bitch. Wrong, tell people they can bitch all they want, but if they are not informed they can only bitch, no voting.
Tell your uninformed friends to stay home on election day, convince them they are too busy to vote or tell them they changed the day of the election. If they fall for any of that, then you did your country a huge favor.
Stop the Vote!
People in general are stupid and the more people you get involved, the more stupid people you get involved.
Need proof?
Fine, two stories...
- Groups are seeking to register homeless people.
Special drives will be held Sept. 21-27 to register homeless and low-income people to vote to coincide with the registration deadlines of most states. The last day to register to vote in the November election in Alabama is Oct. 24.
- Groups are seeking to register voters in prison.
Local activist Kenneth Glasgow will visit jails and prisons throughout the state this weekend to register inmates to vote.
Don't even get me started on who these wonderful people are going to vote for, nah let me let them do it for you.
John Cook Thomas would like to cast his vote in the November election for Barack Obama.Tell me why my well informed opinion should be canceled out by a guy sleeping on a park bench.
"When you're homeless you have a lot of issues you're dealing with," said Michael Stoops, project director for the 'You Don't Need a Home to Vote' campaign. "But some homeless folks are up on current events."Right. Sleeping under a newspaper does not help you absorb what is in it.
Tell me why we should go into a prison and find people who are incapable of playing by our societies' rules and ask them help decide who gets to run this country. Why is some scumbag convict or convicted felon's vote worth as much as mine. The reality is, convicted felon disenfranchisement is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country, but the misuses of it they must be corrected.
Yeah I said "felon disenfranchisement is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country."
The obvious argument against my point that voting should not be encourage or allowed to the homeless, the incarcerated or convicted felons will be...
Perhaps we need to go back to colonial days when only white men who possessed land were eligible to vote. No women allowed!! NO black people could vote but they were counted as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes. If we're going to take one step backwards, why not go all the way back..Nowhere did I claim that voting should be restricted based on race, gender or socio-economic class. My point is simple, WE SHOULD NOT BE BEGGING PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS OF VOTING.
Those who want to vote will, I say we ban voter registration drives, eliminate "motor voter" and do away with "Rock the Vote." The only way you should be able to register to vote is by going down to the County Board of Registrars and register yourself.
Check out where you can register to vote in Alabama:
- Driver's licensing office
- County and select municipal public libraries
- Department of Human Resources
- WIC Program, Department of Public Health
- Medicaid Agency
- Department of Rehabilitation Services
And please, stop telling me "voting is cool" or if I don't then I can't bitch. Wrong, tell people they can bitch all they want, but if they are not informed they can only bitch, no voting.
Tell your uninformed friends to stay home on election day, convince them they are too busy to vote or tell them they changed the day of the election. If they fall for any of that, then you did your country a huge favor.
Stop the Vote!
Labels: alabama, Barack Obama, Dale Jackson, election, left in alabama, other blogs, scumbags, voting
posted by Dale Jackson at
8/19/2008 07:48:00 PM
18 Comments:
You are a racist. You try to hide it on the air but this proves it.
--from deovindice--
While I agree with Mr. Jackson in part, in that voters should be informed enough to vote, he has presented us with something of a dichotomy. In fact, he shows us perhaps a bit of hypocrisy.
His comments from 18 August regarding "Time Killer: Madden 09", to wit, "Today I got a copy of Madden 09....it remains addictive", is followed by "So if you are looking for me, you will probably find me plopped down in front of my big screen running over Eagles with Marion Barber."
To rail against voting privileges for the homeless as well as prison convicts is one thing. In fact, it is perhaps a smart thing. Yet to state that, "People in general are stupid and the more people you get involved, the more stupid people you get involved" is one hell of a statement to make when the author himself is "addicted" to one of the sort of mind-numbing, completely noneducational, brain candy kind of diversions that our culture is rife with and which is responsible for so much of the apathy as well as the uninformed state of the citizenry, not to mention it is representative of that which many parents fight daily in order to keep our children inquisitive, stimulated and focused on things of real importance. It is about as close to hypocrisy as one can get, and the only reason Mr. Jackson would be exempted from being tagged as such is because as a talk radio host, he does on a daily basis initiate discussion of pertinent issues. However, does he not realize that so many of the ridiculous Bluetooth headset-wearing, video game-playing, American Idol-worshiping, Ipod-toting people that comprise potential voters are so distracted by what our culture has become and that the multitude of available escapes from reality is responsible for said?
Oh.......and to those who wear those ridiculous headsets and walk around talking to yourselves about nothing important......get one that hangs out of your ass while you're at it. That way, you'll understand just how ridiculous you really look.
Lastly, I'd like to include in Mr. Jackson's group of ineligible voters those people who bought a made-in-Asia-just-another-cell-phone iPhone for an astronomical amount of money. You've displayed the same sort of financial irresponsibility shown by the very politicians you'd probably vote for anyway.
Are you kidding?
You can be informed and still partake in the evils of society (video games and cell phones).
Honestly I can't decide which of the previous two posts is more idiotic.
dale you are a prime example of the youth of today, older folks with wisdom offer you sound advice and make valid points and you call them idiots.
i took you apart in less than 2 minutes on the air when you were in b'ham and left you ranting like a 4 year old, and those 2 posts did them same thing.
just because you happen to be on radio it in no way makes you correct or makes your opinion more valid/important than anyone else.
you and matt are windbags full of self importance and BS.
Well Mr. Anonymous, I don't recall you "taking me apart on the air" in Birmingham, but I am sure you did.
I don't care about "older folks" offering me "wisdom." If what you say doesn't make sense to me I am going to point that out.
"you and matt are windbags full of self importance and BS."
And yet here you are.
indeed here correcting the bs you post dale and again you confirm at your young age lacking wisdom you decide if the intelligent folks make sense to you...the point is you lack the fundamental wisdom/knowledge to even understand the points they make, so intelligence indeed most often wont make sense to you.
i will be happy to meet you in a public forum(where you dont control the microphone) and discuss any issue.
Thanks Grampa.
--from deovindice--
Dale Jackson said--"You can be informed and still partake in the evils of society (video games and cell phones)." Indeed one can, and as I stated before, I would include you in that small group. That is merely stating the obvious.
However, just why do you think that the great unwashed masses of uninformed society are the way they are? What diverts their attention away from important matters of the day? Just what supplants an awareness of the very means by which they are to be represented? Would that be intense study of interesting subjects? Devotion to charity work? Volunteering in any number of ways that simply prevents devoting the necessary time to gaining some perspective as to the issues of the day? I think not.
The things that divert attention away from matters of importance is a demand for instantaneous stimulation and gratification by any number and/or combination of modern-day plastic/electronic contraptions that don't really do much of anything except for racking up even more consumer debt to the detriment of those who purchase them.
Show me a person, lacking even a basic understanding of the issues of the day that you yourself would cite as evidence that should disqualify them from voting, and I'll show you someone likely wearing iPod earbuds, watching a reality show on their cellular device, all while banging away at Guitar Hero while someone else is busy stealing their debt-laden credit identity.
Issues of the day do not require 24 hours of attention. They require attention, my problem lies with dragging the idiots and the apathetic into the process.
They don't belong in the process.
ty for another great example, you use grandpa as making fun of me and something to be joked about.
FACT = grandpas are the backbone of this nation, grandpas BUILT all of the things you now enjoy and have done nothing to earn, grandpas have been holding the family together for centuries.
also grandmas have been very involved in this whole process.
the very lack of basic human respect shown in your posts dale speak the truth about your generation.
a group of self centered jerks that have accomplished nothing yet, but openly deride the very people that made EVERYTHING around you possible.
indeed i am proud to be a grandpa and to pass on the wisdom and gifts given to me by my grandparents to my grandkids, who happen to be children that will grow up with respect for their elders and a base of wisdom that YOU REJECT!
by the way you have been dismantled and exposed for all thinking folks to see dale.
an intelligent person would recognize the wisdom in my posts and thank me for sharing with them and apply it in their life, YOU of course will have some further jerky remark.
The Dems/Libs/Evils are going after the unintelligent/uninformed voters. Poor saps! How are you Blue Dogs sleeping at night anymore?
Good God Grampa no one is deriding you because you are old. I am deriding you because you sound like a bitter old coot.
"Grampas built this country"
Seriously... I mean honestly, are you really implying that you deserve some praise 24
/7. Fine, thanks grampy .
Let me ask you this, were you an insane old codger when you were out building America.
again you make my point.
i claimed NOTHING for myself other than raising my grandkids as i was raised.
YOU throw in total bs and LIE about me on a personal level.
great thinking there dale, NO dale when i was serving in the USAF during viet nam i was NOT an old codger, of course a person with any level of intelligence would understand that i wasnt born as an old codger.
that is typical of my point about todays youths, are you as stupid as your question implies?
the world didnt begin the day your were born dale, please spread that bit of wisdom among your peers.
It definitely got better the day I was born.
Now get off my lawn old man.
"People in general are stupid and the more people you get involved, the more stupid people you get involved."
"Now get off my lawn old man."
the author of both those quotes calls me bitter....LOL
YOU called the rest of the population stupid not me boy.
and indeed i shall leave your lawn,
it is too nasty for me anyway with all the BS you spread on it.
"People in general are stupid and the more people you get involved, the more stupid people you get involved."
"Now get off my lawn old man."
the author of both those quotes calls me bitter....LOL
Did you just make a point?
YOU called the rest of the population stupid not me boy.
If you believe that good for you.
and indeed i shall leave your lawn, it is too nasty for me anyway with all the BS you spread on it.
See you tomorrow!
If you don't like the American institution, fucking leave the country. You make my home state look bad.
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!
Who are you talking too?
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