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Everybody complains about politicians.

Everybody says, "They suck".

But where do people think these politicians come from?

They don't fall out of the sky. 

They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. 

They come from American parents, American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they're elected by American voters.

This is the best we can do, folks.

It's what our system produces:

Garbage in!, garbage out!

If you have selfish ignorant citizens, your going to get selfish ignorant leaders.

So maybe it's not the politicians who suck —maybe it's the public that sucks.

Here's a campaign slogan for somebody:

The Public Sucks, Fuck Hope.

Where are all the bright honest intelligent Americans?

Because if it's really the fault of all these politicians, then where are all the other bright people of conscience?

Where are all the bright intelligent Americans ready to step in and save the nation and lead the way?

We don't have people like that in this country.

Everybody is at the mall, scratching their ass, picking their nose and taking their credit card out of their fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them.

So I have solved this little political dilemma in a very simple way. On election day I stay home. I don't vote. Fuck em! Fuck em!

I don't vote.

Two reasons why I don't vote:

First of all, it's meaningless —

This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. 

Now, some people like to twist that around. They say,

"If you don't vote, you have no right to complain"

Where's the logic in that?

If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done.

You voted them in. 

You caused the problem. 

You have no right to complain.

I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who —in fact, did not even leave the house on Election Day. I am in no way responsible for that these people have done and have every right to complain as loud as I want about the mess that you created that I had nothing to do with.

I know that a little later on you guys are going to have another one of the really swell presidential elections that you like so much.

You enjoy yourselves, it's gonna be a lot of fun.

I'm sure as soon as the election is over your country will improve immediately.

As for me, I'll be home on that day, doing essentially the same thing as you, the only difference is, when I get finished masturbating, I'm going to have a little something to show for it folks....

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Transcribed from George Carlin on Voting