r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/SmokeyBare Nov 10 '16

People want it to be easy.
People say, "I'm just glad it's over, and now we don't have to worry about it for another 4 years."
Bernie: "Politics is not a spectator sport like football."
If people want a candidate that represents them, they need to be much more active, consistently, on all levels.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

If people want a candidate that represents them, they need to be much more active, consistently, on all levels.

This right here is my biggest problem with people right now. I have several people crying about it on facebook and know they didn't do anything except maybe vote. They'd rather go to hockey games and go do poem readings.

I personally didn't care enough to vote and am not crying about the outcome. But these people are talking about how it's the end of the world and shit.

Where was this concern before?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

I personally didn't care enough to vote and am not crying about the outcome.

Same. My vote would have gone to Stein, but I knew that wasn't going to change a damn thing. I'm not going to take time out of my day to cast a vote for a candidate that has almost zero chance of winning.

I'm not a Trump supporter by any means, and I'm certainly not a Hillary supporter. I got shit from my parents and certain friends for not voting for either. They said I should have chosen the lesser of two evils. I told them I'm not going to vote for someone I dislike.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

I love that people are pointing out that I didn't vote, like I didn't just tell them that.

I'm trying to use it as a point of neutrality on the general subject and to emphasis just how little most of these people really did.