Voting Rights

[Mobius]

Isn't it nice that this political "fur-ball" only comes up once every four years.

No person, Dom or other wise does not have the right to tell or compel another to vote one way or another.

That being for your every day master / submissive relationship.

Now if it were a 100 percent power exchange. Were she was truly property. Living in a cage. Totally Dependant on the Dominant Master for her 3 squares and a place to sleep. Having given up her identity, Papers etc. She could not vote regardless. Of her beliefs whether they be Conservative or liberal. Ah yes my dream girl.

Politics is a relationship killer. You either have to agree to what ever your partner is saying or you end up fighting a totally useless battle trying to convince the other that they are wrong. It does not ever work. I as a conservitive can not convince a liberal that they are wrong and that there arguments make no sense. And are based on a pack of Michel Moor's lies. And like wise A liberal can not convince me that bush lied and he has ties to Saudi family.

So I stay out of these discussions and when ask who I am gong to vote for I shrug and say that I am not happy with either of the candidates. Walk away get in my bus and do my route.

My recommendation is to tell your partner what ever he wants to hear. Then vote the way you want to vote. It only comes up once every 4 years and when all is said and done it really does not matter whether Bush wins or Kerry.
Come January 1st we will still be in Iraq and our troops are still going to be blown up. If gore had won. Sodom would still be in power and we would be on our 80th UN sanction on Iraq. We would be paying 8 dollars a gallon for gas. and would be driving little smart cars. That would be peeled off the wheels of big semi trucks.

The 1000 troops that have died. Would be alive but, would be replaced by the 10,000 people in the US that were killed by the terrorist that would be running rampant in the streets.

I think I need to win the Lottery and spend my life on a beach in Samoa. They dig fat guys down there.

[mythicat]

My solution? Kink or vanilla, don't get into a serious long term relationship with someone you have fundamentally different beliefs from. No relationship needs that kind of extra strain; they're work enough to maintain without it. Basic agreement over politics and religion were the hardest of hard limits for me in both r/l and online commitments. And add childrearing philosophy to that list for r/l marriage consideration. Some things are just too important to fight over as far as I'm concerned. And arguing aside...the fact that we are able to attend church together (and have frighteningly similar belief histories!), and that we're able to go to the polls together and vote as one voice, is in itself very unifying and helps bond us that much closer together as a couple. I can't imagine being at odds with my partner over such basic tenets.

Of course the fact that we also share a warped sense of humor about those basic tenets doesn't hurt either!

[midnightsky]

I'd never ever ask my sub to vote a specific way. Sure, I encourage people to vote, and im quite liberal so i obviously have a slant of how i view the world. Then again, Im never in anything longterm (vanilla or kink) with someone who doesnt agree with me politically, socially, and economically. i dont blame ppl for not wanting to vote- Im sorry, but the canidates are all aweful imo (and lol much much more conservative than me).

In the pres elections you arent actually canceling out a vote though, since its by electorals and its whoever gets the most votes (and the electors are reak people too! are you worried? cause i am ) so even if you could cancel out someones vote, it wouldnt matter since our constitution says we have to use the electoral college

[Master13]

My first reaction to this was: isn't that a federal crime? It would be interesting to see how a court ruled on it. Is it legal to order someone to vote a certain way if he/she agreed to do as you command out of his/her free will? Of course it would never actually go to court because no one but the couple involved would know.

[embre]

My first reaction to this was: isn't that a federal crime? It would be interesting to see how a court ruled on it. Is it legal to order someone to vote a certain way if he/she agreed to do as you command out of his/her free will? Of course it would never actually go to court because no one but the couple involved would know.

In many states and counties just being involved in BDSM is a crime. Heck I can't imagine the whole idea of consensual slavery coming into a court.