Guest Post by Monty Pelerin
Electile Dysfunction is a psychological condition afflicting too many US citizens. It is the irrational belief that voting matters.
If you believe your candidate or any candidate will honor his/her promises for more than four hours after assuming office, you have electile dysfunction. This is a dangerous condition which risks severe depression, both mental and economic. It is delusional behavior as described by dictionary.com:
… maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts, usually as a result of mental illness
A Home Self-Test for Electile Dysfunction
Electile dysfunction is easy to spot but remains a very under-diagnosed condition. Many people unknowingly suffer from the disease. Fortunately, a simple self-diagnosis can be performed. What you think of this political sign allows you to self-diagnose:
If you agree with the sign, chances are you suffer from electile dysfunction. If you agree only with the first three words of the sign, then you probably do not suffer from the malady and can be considered a reasonably well-adjusted person.
Scams Used To Prey Upon Victims
Beware of false definitions of the disease as well as promised false cures. The following fit into one or both of these categories:
The cure for the disease is abstinence, complete and total abstinence. Do not validate the myth of government by voting for the criminals who believe they have the right to rule over the rest of us.
Voting libertarian is as Stupid as voting for Obama.
Dysfunctional pols are a protected criminal class. I use to think my vote mattered, then I realized that if it mattered would they actually allow us to vote. There are changes coming, be ready!
Vote for Trump or support more of the same.
This is the first election in quite some time that you actually have a viable choice you can make, don’t waste it.
It is only a matter of time before electile dysfunction pills are marketed by big pharma, and the dumbed down sheep gobble them up at $25 a pop, paid for by the taxpayer of course.
I don’t see how NOT voting changes things any more than voting does. If anything it takes the more intelligent people out of the process. Of course, it could be that the charade collapses that much sooner, but maybe not. Overall doesn’t seem like a good thing to me, and certainly not something the Founding Fathers would approve of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCHcFoOqUM
If Trump wins, the GOP Brass will be fired and a lot of professional bureaucrats too. That WILL BE something to celebrate.
Scott Adams points out the brilliance of Bernie Sanders latest ad: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/137759292281/bernie-sanders-turns-on-the-iowa-afterburners
Bernie slogan – “A Future to Believe In”
Doesn’t this ring just like “Hope and Change”?
Fucking commie
maybe bernie will be kind enough to tell me the difference between a democrat, a socialist, a marxist and a commie. surely lenin could answer that question, only time
I for the lesser of two evils is still a vote in favor of evil.
As it happens, living in OK no one but R’s has any chance at any statewide national office anyhow. So, going to vote for an R adds nothing and going to vote for a D is futility defined.
These yutz’s, as much as love them for being salt-of-the-earth people, voted Tom Coburn in again after he voted for TARP and then ran a campaign that positioned him as a raging outsider. LOL.
I will consider voting again after the tree has been watered.
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How would it look election night if they announced that Hitlery wins with 66.6% of the popular vote … 2 people voted for Hitlery and 1 for Trump.
In the 2016 presidential election cycle, it’s not so much an “irrational belief that voting matters” but rather a tattered shred of hope that we might be able to fuck these government sons of bitches back just a little.
Probably not gonna happen, but these “advance auction sales of stolen goods” are going to happen whether we want them to or not, so we might as well take whatever dram of Schadenfreude we can get out of the process.
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“The American political system is like a gigantic Mexican Christmas fiesta. Each political party is a huge pinata – a papier-mache donkey, for example. The donkey is filled with full employment, low interest rates, affordable housing, comprehensive medical benefits, a balanced budget and other goodies. The American voter is blindfolded and given a stick. The voter then swings the stick wildly in every direction, trying to hit a political candidate on the head and knock some sense into the silly bastard.”
— P.J. O’Rourke