I keep hearing pundits whining about the growing gap between the rich and the poor. I have difficulty empathizing with that viewpoint for two reasons:
1. Poor people can vote.
2. There are more poor people than rich people.
In theory, those unhappy poor people could vote to tax the living piss out of the super rich. Why don’t they do it?
I know you’ll say the system is rigged in favor of big money, and the voters are manipulated into voting against their own self interests. That’s all true of course. Still, if you’re looking to place blame, it has to be on the low income people who don’t vote. If ever there was an appropriate time for the phrase “It’s your own damned fault,” it’s now.
Senior citizens vote like crazy (sometimes literally), and look at all the loot they get. Younger generations are paying those lazy Greatest Generation bastards more Social Security money than the retirees ever paid into the system. That’s because seniors bother to vote. They’re smart!
Personally, I don’t vote. That’s partly because I know there isn’t enough information available for me to make an informed decision, and partly because the rich white guys in power (my peeps) are doing a good job of taking from the poor and giving to me. I don’t have much to gripe about.
But if I were poor and planned to stay that way, I’d certainly take a free hour off of work every few years to vote for any goobers that planned to screw the rich and give me free stuff. And if that didn’t work, I wouldn’t be angry at Bill Gates. I’d be pissed at the moronic poor people who didn’t bother to yank a handle so we could all get free stuff.