Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 01, 2020

He seems to know as much as some adults.

Be a dolt. The world needs more dolts.

Don’t be a dolt. VOTE BLUE!!

Mark Twain suggested that, though every man has a vote, people who are better should get more votes. The problem is that his suggestion has been perverted by the obscenely rich so they get the extra votes. And, actuarially speaking, they have to live with the consequences for the least amount of time.

My favorite David Letterman quote:

Vote. Because your vote counts as much as someone who knows what he’s voting about.

The truthiness of TV adds is at an all time low and that is what many people are basing their votes on.

When in doubt, remember who launched the first attack ad….and vote for their opponent.

Maybe it was Dilbert’s Scott Adams (or not; who knows?) who would list stupid things some people would do followed by “And then he voted”.

To paraphrase Shakespeare – “The votes of the father are to be laid upon the children.”

Like Pogo used to say, “Vote early and often.”

Hmmm… How about we give women the right to cast a vote for each of their minor, or fetal, children.

That should liven things up a bit.

Don’t sweat it, kid. Your vote and thousands of others can be cancelled by the one vote given an a member of the electoral college board for your state. Ain’t fair, but it’s there.

“. . . for whom would you vote?” Correct word; incorrect placement.

If you are a citizen you should have a vote. Always. In a true democracy this is the foremost right. Yet even in the best of societies there’s a minimum age you have to surpass (instead of a maximum which would make just as much sense).

On a side note, my local paper published next weeks (11/8) comics if anyone is interested.

I remember at ten-years old spouting off just like this kid about how unfair it was that kids couldn’t vote. My fifth grade teacher answered very similarly to Frazz, except he started listing complex issues.

I almost never vote for anyone. Almost always against the worst of the bozos in prospect. Often the incumbent. Imagine that!

Not knowing what was going on in this election would be apt compensation for not being able to vote. I know there is a lot I would like to unsee and unhear.

AH HAH!

When I was a boy visiting my Grandmother in NYC, she told me to go out on the stoop and wait because the president’s motorcade was going to come down the block. The motorcade came and went and I was very confused. All I saw was a bunch of men sitting in suits. I had expected to see someone dressed like George Washington.

Just found out my Uncle, a lifelong Republican, is voting Democrat this time. This never would have happened if he were still alive.

Actually, he sounds like most adult voters…..

14 or fight!

 Wild in the Streets, anyone?

Just remember that and vote when you are old enough to vote.

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Frazz13 hrs · I understand why we have a minimum voting age, of course, and I’m not advocating giving grade-schoolers the right to vote (though a case could be made that they wouldn’t take the job any less seriously than a great number of adults do). I just wish more of us voted with a little more thought to the people who are going to inherit the downstream effects of our choices. And by downstream, I mean Class VI whitewater.