De-Romanticizing Voting

Ugh. In actual outcomes, voting isn't an expression of your heart, your soul, or even your emotion. The result of a vote isn't "the right thing" or "the thing I love" or "the cure for social ills" or "the perfect solution." It's not a mechanism of protest or a chance to be dramatic, and it's not a "gesture" or a stand -- that's what demonstrations, letter writing, and petition campaigns are for. A vote is a functional choice for the preferable viable outcome, an act that adds 1 to a tally that either will be bigger than the other person's or won't. While the act of voting is an expression of a human right, the effect of your vote outside of your own head is confined to real-world outcomes for real people, especially those who have the least range of expression of those human rights you're holding so dear with your vote. Remember that.

Notes:

Folksonomies: democracy voting

Taxonomies:
/law, govt and politics/legal issues/human rights (0.522765)
/style and fashion/footwear/boots (0.433494)
/business and industrial/advertising and marketing/public relations (0.387341)

Keywords:
De-Romanticizing Voting Ugh (0.998354 (negative:-0.779024)), preferable viable outcome (0.876165 (neutral:0.000000)), actual outcomes (0.695229 (negative:-0.331223)), social ills (0.666833 (negative:-0.311738)), real-world outcomes (0.661212 (neutral:0.000000)), vote (0.655430 (negative:-0.380243)), right thing (0.652337 (positive:0.206710)), petition campaigns (0.637767 (neutral:0.000000)), perfect solution (0.637078 (positive:0.579617)), functional choice (0.621051 (neutral:0.000000)), real people (0.605730 (neutral:0.000000)), human rights (0.594338 (neutral:0.000000)), human right (0.588821 (positive:0.415475)), expression (0.567216 (positive:0.415475)), gesture (0.464292 (neutral:0.000000)), tally (0.462997 (negative:-0.474185)), emotion (0.461580 (negative:-0.248038)), protest (0.457195 (negative:-0.465849)), mechanism (0.451928 (negative:-0.465849)), result (0.451046 (negative:-0.380243)), cure (0.449364 (negative:-0.311738)), chance (0.448998 (negative:-0.465849)), stand (0.447257 (neutral:0.000000)), demonstrations (0.446283 (neutral:0.000000)), effect (0.442146 (neutral:0.000000)), heart (0.441313 (neutral:0.000000)), soul (0.441240 (neutral:0.000000)), person (0.440642 (negative:-0.474185))

Entities:
human rights:FieldTerminology (0.799314 (positive:0.415475))

Concepts:
Human rights (0.966210): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc | yago
Rights (0.804781): dbpedia | freebase
Democracy (0.761378): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Economic, social and cultural rights (0.680513): dbpedia | freebase
Law (0.680252): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Game theory (0.668105): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Implementation theory (0.583881): dbpedia | freebase
French Revolution (0.576515): dbpedia | freebase
Liberalism (0.566506): dbpedia | freebase
Concepts in ethics (0.518678): dbpedia
Stax Records (0.514722): website | dbpedia | freebase | yago
Voting (0.497154): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Outcome (0.496959): dbpedia | freebase
Thing (0.495623): dbpedia
Psychology (0.491979): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Evaluation (0.489722): dbpedia | freebase
The Dears (0.474294): dbpedia | freebase | yago | musicBrainz

 Voting
Electronic/World Wide Web>Message Posted to a Newsgroup:  Willingham, Emily (20160726), Voting, Facebook, Retrieved on 2016-09-02
Folksonomies: democracy voting