> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference. Disagreed. There are two more options th

> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference. Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed: 1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options. 2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote. > ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world. Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.