Thanks But No Thanks: Bill Whittle's Asking Me To Vote

I appreciate Bill Whittle's mind. And his effort, here, to appeal to mine. You see, this year, I am the non-voter he's addressing, and I enjoyed hearing him say the arguments I've been receiving to change my mind are "offensive" - it's not like anyone else who advanced them will say it. They just engage in such behavior and "keep on truckin'."

Yes, I understand everything Bill's saying, and am glad he made the effort - but he hasn't changed my mind even one little bit.

You know how people say, "I Didn't Leave the Democrats. They Left Me," or the same for the Republicans? That's kind of how I feel about the country I've loved, which Bill obviously still does. But - even worse - in my case, I'm starting to doubt if I've ever even had a country. Hell, I'm not even sure if this is my planet anymore.

Though it's not a major burning issue for me, I'm still black, and have scraped myself together from liberal California, only to discover the nation is just as insane as the ghetto I grew up in - so which came first, the chicken or the egg?

And - while I know why American ghettos are the way they are - what's everybody else's excuse? You're educated. You don't have a historical past of slavery, racial segregation, or whatever, to point to and say "this played a role in why my life is not totally my own." No, you have had - and made - choices. And done so under a blanket of freedom many - if not most - black people envy.

So what explains your superstitions? Your love of NewAge? Your kow-towing to feminism, or the freedom of cults? And why should I join you in endorsing any of it? Which - when it comes to Romney and that last item on my list - is all my vote will do?

I have seen Bill Whittle address my issues (slightly) but - like so many others - then he drops it, and joins the parade, which is fun to watch, even for me, but not enough to change my focus when I can't escape the main problems, even for a day.

I have lost everything to this. My wife, my career, and - yes - even much of my love for my fellow man. Save the country? "Save the planet"? What help have those claiming I should do so been, when it comes to my issues - which they allow, endorse, and defend?

I've been taunted, teased, ridiculed, and threatened, for not going along. And I still refuse. It is the rest of you who dug this hole, not me. I have fought against it, had nothing to do with it, and will no longer participate as though I had.

I'm not voting. 

ObamaCare AND a cult president are, both, non-starters for me - but the rest of you chose them and did so openly. I watched you do it, repeatedly, in defiance of my pleas, screams, and appeals to reason. Many of you enjoyed it and enjoy it still. As the immensely popular Ann Althouse famously said, it's "ugly" to see me want to be right all the time. Fine - I hear that - so, for once, I'll do wrong:

 Save your own damned selves,…