Political Ranting

I Hope You Feel Vindicated

Proposition 8 looks like it’s going to win right now. While I am happy about Obama’s victory, I am sad at the unnecessary suffering that same-sex couples will endure because of the passage of this proposition.

This is a great example of the intellectual bankruptcy of the “no voting” contingent.

For while you may be able to argue the point that one single person by themselves makes little difference, you cannot argue that many single people taken in aggregate also makes little difference.

Ultimately, Proposition 8 is going to win thanks to the votes of numerous individual voters. It is going to win because the forces that want to deny equal marriage rights to same-sex couples managed to get more of their supporters to the polls. It’s going to win because there were not enough secular voices showing up to defeat it.

So to argue that voting makes no difference is obviously false, as is illustrated here.

I’m going down to Hamilton’s now to celebrate Obama’s victory, but it will be only half celebratory, because I’m really disappointed that Proposition 8 is looking like it’s going to pass. For those of you who don’t think voting matters, I sincerely hope this causes you to rethink your position come election time.