Use your voice: Don't vote.

Goin a little off topic today, but with the current event foremost in a lot of people's minds, the presidential election, i thought i'd share something:

The electoral college perpetuates a system that is so broken the majority of the country can vote for one candidate and the presidency still goes to another. A system that renders my vote essentially worthless. This is like asking a child what they want for dinner then, after they tell you cake, going ahead and making spaghetti anyway. If you don't believe i have the intelligence to make the decision don't insult me by casting the illusion that i have a say in the matter. I refuse to participate until such a fundamentally flawed system is fixed.
So as much as i'd love to finally have health insurance made possible for me by Obama's universal healthcare plan, (with the added bonus of it being paid for largely by raising taxes on all the rich bastards Bush has been giving breaks to the past 8 years) i still refuse to participate in this election. I may worry that we will end up with the same "just do it my way and the hell with the rules" mentality in McCain that has been driving us into the ground via Bush for the past 8 years (although he seems far more intelligence and has several good ideas for change and improving our country's situation) i still will not vote. So no, facebook, bug me all you want, i still won't vote. No, MTV, as cool as you think your ads are, i still won't vote. No, random ensemble of celebrities, your reverse psychology tv ad won't work on me, i WILL NOT VOTE.
But my voice alone will do nothing. So i urge you, do not vote (or maybe vote Obama and save this for 4 years from now...i need health insurance dammit). But don't' simply abstain, tell everyone WHY you're not voting. Tell them you refuse to bend to this arbitrary process until your vote actually carries some weight and your decision might actually influence who becomes president. We are not children asking that we have cake for dinner, we are adults making a decision about who is going to be running the country we live in. That's why we have to wait until we're 18 isn't it?