I’m excited for this next election. Definitely more than last time where I said ‘voting sucks‘.

But, I still want to throw out a few quotes:

“Teens are extremely socially aware, but favour participation through their consumption choices, because they believe corporations are more effective agents of change than governments.” Source

“The Zen master would say if you want to change government, you have to aim at changing corporations, and if you want to change corporations, you first have to change the consumers.” -Yvon Chouinard

“Governments are changed more often by bullets than votes.” -Lord of War

Our government isn’t going to change in the next 4 years. A few policies can be introduced by a president but for the most part, they still need the support of the people (the chain being legislation to lobbyists to consumers).

So, why do we have to wait for one day to vote to really change anything?

Patrick says a lot of great stuff about why he’s voting for Obama. But if we, as a country, are still fighting about war and religion I wonder how much else will really change.

Americans like sports. We like being on the winning team. A lot of us will fight just to make sure we’re the winners (and show that we’re more right) and will always remain the winners. So if we, the citizens consumers aren’t going to change how is government going to?