Think, Decide, Vote, Act
It isn’t as though people don’t want to vote, it’s just that they don’t want to make a decision.
Think
Making decisions is hard because you always think in the back of your mind, did I make the right decision or were there other options open that I should have taken, other paths I should have chosen?
Politicians keep trying to get more people to vote and they tell them, “Get out there and vote.” Yet the turnout in midterm elections and even the general is generally lower than what we would hope for. So, is voting really hard? Is it hard to get registered? Is it hard to find the polling place? Is it hard to get an absentee ballot?
Maybe for some people it is, but if you got as far as getting a credit card, getting your cable tv turned on, going through high school, opening a bank account, passing a test, doing a quiz or driving a car, then getting registered to vote and getting to the polling station shouldn’t be that much more difficult. I don’t think the difficulty lies in the fact that people are required to take certain steps to accomplish a goal. I think once they hit the goal, once they hit the point where they need to take action, they are blocked by something, and what they are blocked by is a huge wall of uncertainty that stands in front of them. And what is that wall called? A decision.
