Dear Ultra Partisan People Who Put Up Tons of Political Yard Signs All Over the Place,

Please pick up and throw out the signs you left all over the sides of the roads.  The election has been over for weeks.  If you put up signs, now it is time for you to take responsibility and throw them away.

Cheers,

George

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I stumbled across this old article that Greg Mankiw wrote in 2000 (reposted on his blog).  He writes:

Voting is a civic responsibility, they tell us, because democracy works best when everyone participates . . .
. . . The problem is, this isn’t true. Sometimes the most responsible thing a person can do on election day is stay at home . . .
. . . By not voting, they are doing themselves and everyone else a favor. If the ill-informed were all induced to vote, they would merely add random noise to the outcome . . .

So, therefore, if you voted because of “change” or “experience,” but did not understand either of the candidates’ policies, perhaps it would have been nicer for the rest of us who made an informed decision if you had just stayed home.  For the record, Starbucks did not check to see if I had an “I Voted” sticker on when they gave me my free coffee.

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