One's vote means absolutely nothing these days for at least three prime reasons. One reason is that the truly important issues aren't listed on any popular candidate's platform. Issues such as the steady decline of the American family - the thing which made our country great at one time. Or, serious pollution legislation - the Mississippi River is a symbol of this country's actual attitude toward pollution. Or, our country's population is out of proportion to the resources required to maintain it. Or, we seem to need to change countries around the world into clones of ourselves, even though we have demonstrated repeatedly that we cannot do even the simplest things correctly - like balance our own budget. Or, our national debt will continue to expand until it crushes us and not a single politician will state the obvious - serious sacrifices will have to be made across the board in order to reverse the effects of our past fiscal lunacy. Or, the number of criminals in our country. There are 2-3 millions locked up now. Tens of more millions who have been locked up. And many tens of millions more who should be locked up. And on and on and on.
The second prime reason that one's vote means absolutely nothing is this: In our early years as a country our original leaders would go to Washington, do the business of the nation for the welfare of the nation, then go back to their businesses. Now we have career politicians whose prime concern isn't the welfare of the country, but rather their own re - election. How does one get re - elected, they put their ears to the ground and give the people what they want. They're not leaders at all, but followers.
The third prime reason is that the form of our government is the most inefficient, cumbersome and incompetent imaginable. It was instituted in this country to eliminate the excesses of the king, queen style of rule. These excesses are no longer an issue. If the Creator Itself gave to Congress the perfect solution to all our problems He/She wouldn't recognize His/Her own work when it emerged from their compromising hands. The one constant in the universe is change. Our present form of government realized it's intended purpose, now we have new challenges, many of them technical in nature. Compromise doesn't work here. We need specific solutions to specific problems. It should be recognized that our present form of government is simply a single step in a stairway towards a rational form of government. A government where each child will have equal access to food, health care and education.

California's worst case scenario: Voter-assisted economic suicide

As if voters aren't suffering enough from the economic crash -- and Washington-aggravated aftermath -- the worst case scenario for California is the election of Jerry Brown and the slate of Democrats for the executive branch, the retention of a large Democrat majority in the Legislature, the passage of Proposition 25, and the defeat of Proposition 23's delay of the AB-32 Global Warming laws.

Coupled with the State implementing forced Obamacare -- and enforcing AB-32's skyrocketing energy costs -- raising the cost of living to new heights, that certainly amounts to voter-assisted -- job-killing -- economic suicide.

Indeed, driving the national economy into a ditch will be mild compared to our state government and political zealots driving California's economy over a 2010-foot cliff, in a union-driven green machine. Problem is, the indoctrinated and deceived majority of voters are pulling the rest of us over the cliff with them.

I didn't vote because it's hardly ever the politician that does the work, but those around him/her, the one's hidden in the shadows and a broken system that does the work. As soon as a total Rebel to the whole system steps forward to create an entirely new foundation, then I'll go ahead and vote.