Reply #80: hate to say it, but in the eyes of some (if not most) people, it IS them . . .

[OneBlueSky]

and the reason they don't vote is that, at any level but the most superficial, they don't see a lick's worth of difference between "Them, Side A" and "Them, Side B" . . . two views of the same coin that (despite the handsome gentleman on the front and the majestic edifice on the back) is worth exactly the same amount no matter how you look at it . . . which, in most cases, is zilch . . .

now I'm not saying this is how I feel, mind you . . . but sometimes it's really hard not to . . .