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Should everyone who can vote vote?
Ok, so I became 18 this year, and who or what I want to vote for in elections and referendums has become important. People treat voting as a prerequisite of being an adult, and people who don't vote are often viewed as lazy, unpatriotic or generally less virtuous than those who do. I have very rarely heard arguments for why people do vote whereas I am told that I should go vote relatively often, either by adverts before the referendum, the media in general or occasionally even just by family and friends.
Now the meat of the problem; why I don't vote. I believe that myself, along with the majority of the population, are not qualified to vote. I don't read the newspaper or even watch the news. I don't look at political pages on the internet. I have never studied politics. If I were to pick which side I preferred it would be based on something very far from logic. I would be voting to show that I could, or because some political BS had won me over.
If people want to talk about whether voting should work differently then I will add that to the topic, but for now I would like to know if you think the attitude towards voting should be different and if/why you vote yourself.
Yadda yadda yadda not so important.
Now the meat of the problem; why I don't vote. I believe that myself, along with the majority of the population, are not qualified to vote. I don't read the newspaper or even watch the news. I don't look at political pages on the internet. I have never studied politics. If I were to pick which side I preferred it would be based on something very far from logic. I would be voting to show that I could, or because some political BS had won me over.
If people want to talk about whether voting should work differently then I will add that to the topic, but for now I would like to know if you think the attitude towards voting should be different and if/why you vote yourself.
Good morning sweet princess
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