Why one of my people refused to vote:

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3. I feel that even if his points are valid, they are hopelessly naive.

One thing that struck me as wrong immediately from his statement is that "Just look at what happened with Obama. He was one of the most liberal members of the senate, and once he took power under this system he became just like Bush, or even worse in some ways."

Obama was NEVER a liberal. Even in his college years what he did was figure out what the Republicans wanted, promoted what could be agreed upon by looking immediately at the middle then getting things done.

I consider myself at the center at one point, but Obama is much further to the right of me.

Now, here's the thing I have for voting.

Thinking that they would create a groundswell and take away the legitimacy of the electoral process I doubt will ever happen, unless things get so much worse. Do they really want to get to the point of hopelessness first?
That is pretty ridiculous and makes a hell of a lot of assumptions about people reacting the way they want.

People are dumb, and we are slowly being boiled and they don't jump or do anything since it is slow enough that people get acclimated to how bad things are.