>>Those few aquaintences of ours who didn't vote got told VERY quickly in our house that they don't get to bitch, because they didn't vote. Most of them are voters now.
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>That's assuming that voting changes anything. If it did, it would have been replaced with something harmless long ago. Oh, wait...

Doesn't matter if the voting changes anything, the point is they're now engaged in the process and the more people we have engaged in the process the more opportunity to perhaps change that process for the better.