Dysfunctionally_Functioning

There are some things in life I just dont understand. I have never been one to really follow politics until 2006. It was at this time I enrolled in a poli sci class and begin to see things a little differently. Until this time I could only see politics as boring. I've voted in every election since I was able to vote but would only pay attention during the months leading up to the election. Of my immediate family I am the only one who votes in every election. As a matter of fact most of my family memebers though they are eligible to vote only voted in the last primary because now President B.H. Obama was running. I'm not knocking that because that was the case with a lot of voters who turned out to the 2008 election. What I dont understand is people who do not vote. I know there are ones who do not do so due to religious reasons and there are others who would like to and have had their rights revoked. I'm speaking on the ones that simply do nor. I have stressed this issue soo many times to different family and friends yet it has fallen on deaf ears. The one response I hear a lot is my vote dont count. Really? In my mind I think of the people who marched for this. The people who died for this very reason. There are times depending on who the person is that I let it go. You cant reason with ignorance. What about the ones who are college educated? The ones who are in their careers have been for years or in the military or currently in college? These are the ones that I have the hardest time understanding. It would seem to me that they would be more understanding of the plight of the country and the need to let their voices be heard. I know people who will not pick up a book to read but will vote in every election. I guess I wonder how can you be an advocate for change in so many other ways yet fail to see the importance of this one thing? I was fortunate to have people around me at different stages of my life that stressed certain things to me and instilled things of importance in me. Not to mention that fact that I've always been the one to stand up when everyone else sat down. I guess I wonder in a time when we have made so much progress how can we still have so far to go?

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