Voter apathy.Efforts by Catholic Insight and others to 'overcome voter VOTER. One entitled to a vote; an elector. apathy' about issues such as same-sex same-sex adj. 1. Involving or restricted to members of the same sex: same-sex schools. 2. Of or involving gay men or lesbians: same-sex couples; same-sex marriage. 'marriage' are almost certain to fail--as efforts to overcome 'voter apathy' about the worse evil, abortion, have already failed. That is because 'voter apathy' is a logical, natural, and inevitable outcome of our being encouraged to vote, despite have our views discounted on really important issues. For if I and thousands (or millions) of others are obliged o·blige v. o·bliged, o·blig·ing, o·blig·es v.tr. 1. To constrain by physical, legal, social, or moral means. 2. to forego what we vote for, just because a few more others merely vote for the opposite, it ought to be obvious that we are pretty much obliged not to want it very deeply. Port au Port, NL Editor: Democracy is not a perfect system, but it is the best we have; and therefore we must abide by the rules. Dictatorship dictatorship Form of government in which one person or an oligarchy possesses absolute power without effective constitutional checks. With constitutional democracy, it is one of the two chief forms of government in use today. and totalitarian regime bring evils of even greater magnitude. |
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