Buying your vote

So Corporate America is at it in full force, luring out those undecided voters with offerings of free food, just for presenting an "I Voted" sticker on this Election Day.

It seems that in order to ensure more blind faithfulness to a broken system and a lie of democracy, Joe Sixpack is being promised good in return for his last minute vote, a vote that almost certainly was made while driving past the hundreds of Candidate Advertisements on the roadsides or standing in line at his polling place.

This kind of voting is inherently wrong because it means that our Patriotic Citizen has no real idea about where their candidate of choice stands on the issues, what their candidates decisions mean on a national or global scale, or other ramifications of their decision to pull the lever in favor of the last name or commercial they saw.

Voting just because you can is not the same as voting because you should.

If you go into your polling place only because tradition tells you you should, Starbucks promises you coffee, or you feel some patriotic duty to blindly pull a lever, punch a card, darken a circle or press a button, then you have just taken part in the degredation of everything that should make our political system great.

Commercialism has become our new way of life, and no longer do we get to choose the best person for the job; rather, we get to choose the most preferred brand out of the two selected for us.

Thanks, but I'll pay for my coffee if it means I didn't have to sacrifice my morals to vote for the lesser of two evils.