Not voting is a vote too. It's a vote against the system. If your choice was between Stalin and Hitler would you still vote?

No, you'd probably abstain.

If we lived in a real Democracy where multi-candidates and parties had a real chance at running, it might be different.

Instead, we live in a country where two private corporate-like entities, called the Republicans and Democrats, control the entire process and privately decide which two candidates the rest of us get to "choose" from. Even then, the popular vote doesn't even mean squat and is nothing more than a formality as we saw again in 2000. Powerful individuals cast the real votes.

And the mainstream media considers not only the two parties to be the only legitimate candidates, but only selected candidates from either party to be legitimate. Whether they are popular or not. And then they run only those names through the media, over and over and over again, so that Americans end up voting by name reconignition instead of who is actually the better candidate.

The whole thing is a damn sham.

To make matters worse, it's been made purposely difficult in many states for another party or indepedent to even get on the ballot, much less run against these two parties.

So, while I have a right to vote, I also have a right NOT to vote in an election that is really nothing more than confirming the privately pre-selected to two candidates.

At least I can choose whether or not to vote. The privately controlled Democratic party has so much power to decide who your President is going to be, that they were able to eliminate TWO entire states from the primary election, just because they didn't like when their primaries were held.

And why is that legal? Because they are private organizations. Again, there is nothing public, open or fair about our current Presidental election system.