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Entry: Reverend Ike, Margaret Sanger, or Ludendorff Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/reverend_ike_margaret_sanger_or_ludendorff#21720 Post contents: <i>To this I respond that most votes are wasted, since your odds of changing the course of a national election by voting are much lower than of your being shot by a sniper on your way to the polls.</i> I used to believe this. I used to believe that the small ideological differences between the parties were not worth missing happy hour at a decent bar. I especially didn't think that the small differences between Al Gore and Dick Cheney (and the other guy on the ticket) amounted to much. And so, I regularly gave my vote to a third party. How wrong I was; how vastly different was the government and the country, big differences that resulted from small differences in outlook. Democracy forces us to make bad choices, to choose the lesser of the evils offered. And while the lesser evil may still be evil, it is nonetheless lesser. The small difference can lead to big consequences. Sent at: 2008 07 24