Larry’s Log

Watching 60 Minutes last night to see if they made any new blunders I caught Andy Rooney’s words of iron.

I have a message for the 100 million Americans who didn’t care enough about our democracy to vote last time. Good! And, please, do us all a favor. Don’t vote next time, either. If you don’t care enough about the issues, I don’t want you canceling out my vote with your vote.

I never understood why I should want to encourage people to vote that I have not spent any time studying the issues or who have shown me no signs of having any original idea of their own. Rather than encourage people to vote, I think we ought to do all that we can to discourage them. Why should I want my vote watered down by someone who has no grasp of the issues and has shown nothing but apathy about politics.

It was nice to hear this said on a national news show. It was especially nice hearing it on CBS.