I saw a couple of solid videos online featuring a bunch of celebrities with the message “Don’t [not] Vote.”  You can watch them here and here.

I thought about this whole voting thing for a little bit.

Know what the best way would be to convince people to vote?  Change the constitution: “If you don’t vote this year, you lose your right to vote forever.”  Granted, there are oodles of legal and moral hazard “well I had a Doctor appointment” problems here, but run with me for a second.

What does this do to all the people who take their right to vote for granted?  Gives them a huge kick in the ass.  As lazy as Americans are, and for how much we take our rights for granted, we’ll put up a hell of a good fight for anyone who tries to overtly take away our rights.  That’s why we’re semi-quasi-okay with the american military going into dictatorial regimes to instill democracy and give people rights, and that’s why whenever the government decides to take our rights away they do so under facades with names like “The Patriot Act.”

But if you had to vote if you wanted to keep your right to do it?  That’s some real motivation.  That’s American.

If you haven’t heard it enough already, go out and vote on Tuesday.  All the patriotic people are doing it.