“My point is that no enough people vote. If they did
I’m sure things would be a bit different.”

This is the political equivalent of the gambler’s
fallacy. “Just keep betting on red.”

In Peru, voting is mandatory. The vote is 100%, all
the time. Despite that, there’s not exactly gourmet
leadership in my native land.

The problem with the US is not the lack of quantity of
vote, but rather with the interruption of said voter
influence, by giant PAC’s (Political Action Groups)
and affluent lobbies. Their monied influence makes
the orbit of government go consistently off axis.

Why else, do we have expensive congressmen (with a
lower case “c”) spending valuable time on making sure
that battered, frozen, french fries are considered a
“fresh vegetable” by the FDA? Who in their right mind
would vote for that? Or vote for something equally
crazy, like a land war in Indo China, under the guise
of communism containment, or something nuts like
making it illegal for Medicare to use it’s buying
power to negotiate lower rates on prescription drug,
or something really crazy like, I don’t know, like
invading Iraq under the guise of fighting terrorism.

The moral of the story, then, young Sean, is that one
can rock the proverbial vote till the cows come home.
It won’t be until one gets rid of the vile influence
of campaign cash that these votes will do any good.

Till then, vote Kerry.