Stop Thinking and Listen to Hasso Hering

His latest literally tells the reader what to think about voting. Not on the issues before voters, but on the idea of voting itself.

It must be hard sometimes, to not run the world when you so obviously know better than anyone else.

Hering:

In elections, people who care a lot one way or another make sure to cast ballots. The others don’t. And when you think about it, you would not have it any other way. (hh)

Why bother thinking? I already know what the outcome will be!

Never mind the fact that voting is - by far and away - not this simple.

Jah forbid Hering mention that. It might upset his closed little universe.

Immediate Update: Let's compare Hasso's editorial to the one that ran in the Gazette-Times.

First of all, the GT editorial has the title It's A Right to Die For: Vote Today.

While that should tell you all need to know about the difference, here's an excerpt:

In the global scheme of things, an off-year election with three items on the ballot may not seem like much of a priority, something to cross off our too-long to-do lists. But if you are among the roughly 60 percent of registered voters in Benton County whose ballot had not yet arrived at the elections office as of Monday afternoon, consider that if you don’t review the issues, mark your ballot and drop it at any of the county’s 12 sites scattered between Corvallis, Alsea, Adair Village and Albany, you are passing up something precious.

What’s more, you are letting others decide some important local and state issues that convey lasting consequences. The practical reason not to let this happen is that if 50 percent of the voters do not weigh in on Benton County’s levy proposal, nobody’s vote will count. That’s not a good way to enact policy.

That's more like it.