Reply #37: It's the FORCED atmosphere that I object to.

[SoCalDem]

People are NOT "free to vote"...they are coerced into voting.

Look at our own history for a moment.

The British, prior to the revolutionary war could have just said.. "Hey, we'll just give you all an election.... Here are some ballots, pay no attention to the redcoats with guns and bayonets...just stick your finger into this inkwell, and make your mark on the ballot, which WE have happily provided for you"

Then their press could have announced that the colonists were dancing in the streets because they were happy to be voting.

Never mind the fact that most of the colonists would NOT have voted, and perhaps the ones who DID could not even read...but HEY..they voted anyway.

Does anyone think that our "issues" with the occupiers (the British) would just go away, and we would all have been pleased with the "winners" of that bogus election?