The neoconservative agenda, which has come to dominate the foreign policy of the right, attempts to justify changing regimes by force to spread democracy. The basis of democracy is universal suffrage, which gives the power of government to the people. In the course of liberating un-democratic nations, however, we inevitably kill many civilians no matter how we try to avoid doing so. We are, therefore, risking their lives to bring them voting rights. That leads to a highly important question. If, for some bizarre reason, all people in your country were deprived of the right to vote, would you be willing to risk your life to regain the right to vote? I for one would not risk my life for voting rights alone. I am not directly referring to the war in Iraq, by the way, but rather on the neoconservative agenda in general.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

It Depends: I would fight for my country's democracy against those who try to delete it,so i would fight for voting right in general.

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To be free people,in our own land,the land of Zion and Jeruaslem

But, hypothetically (I know this will never happen), would you risk your life if Israel wouldn't let its people vote?

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

...I'd fight to the death for my freedom.

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison

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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Where have all the Conservatives Gone?

But as long as I was sure that that was what I was fighting for - so often people have gone, like lambs to slaughter, and it ended up they were just fighting so that one crowd of crooks could steal the right from another crowd of crooks to steal control over resources which rightfully belonged to neither...that is dim in the extreme...but such are men...

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Yes. If I can't vote, I live in a dictatorship. I would not give up that right willingly.

It's an open question, though, how many people would fight for voting rights in countries where they've never existed. I don't think anybody can say for sure until they've been there. People tend to get accustomed to the conditions they grew up with.

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Man up.

Well, in terms of what I would be fighting for here in America, the right to vote for George W. Bush or John Kerry, or, hypothetically, George Allen or Joe Biden, is not something I would risk a papercut for.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

You're also fighting for the right to elect your state and local representatives.

More relevantly, just because you don't care about the candidates this time around doesn't mean you won't care about the candidates next year... or in 10 years.... or in 20 years. You fight for the right to vote so that you have it when you need it.

As well, the existence of the right to vote probably exerts a moderating influence on candidates. Say what you will about Bush or Kerry, they're no Pol Pot or Stalin or Hitler. I would argue that having a system that selects for bland leaders is something close to an absolute good.

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Man up.

Local elections aside, can anyone think of a Presidential candidate in history who was worth voting for? I can't.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)