Voting......or Not

It's here; election time!! Aren't you so very excited?

Actually, judging from the numbers, you're not. 

In Knox County, there are a little over 275,000 registered voters. Compare that to the 441,000+ people living in Knox County, take out those who aren't eligible or aren't yet old enough to register to vote.....let's just say and even 400,000.

But I have a better question to pose......Why do you vote at all?

As a nation, and a state, we have continually sent back the same old, tired, white dudes for DECADES! Why?
I love to hear people (who very likely don't even vote) bitch and complain about the President. The President (even Barack Obama with his executive orders) can only do so much. The lawmakers are the senators and congressmen that we keep sending back to do so very little it makes me nauseous. 

Do you understand that congress and the senators make the laws?

I'm simply trying to understand the math here....Congress has a 13% approval rating as of June 2014.

Now I'm assuming that at least some of the registered voters fall into the "pissed off" category here. If so, why are you sending these douche bags back to Washington year after year?
The voters of this country are either thoroughly confused or are unintelligent. I choose to believe the former. So here's my plan for fixing the voting system (or rather the voters IN the voting system)

1. Not everyone should be allowed to vote. This is not a "right" as most claim it to be. If you vote a certain because that's how Ma-maw voted 65 years ago, then you're a sheep being lead to slaughter. Stay home on election day.

2. If you have not researched the candidates for a given office, sans commercials on TV, radio, and the endless crap that's dumped into your mailbox on a weekly basis; don't vote. This is because you have not properly educated yourself on the candidates and you will, by default, choose the incumbent. Not a good strategy.

3. If you have, at any point in the past, voted for Stacey Campfield for Tennessee Senate, you should be deported to Arkansas and never be allowed back into my beloved Rocky Top.