Then you have no one to blame but yourself.
What precisely should I be blaming myself for? In order for the math to work you'd have to come up with an issue/candidate of which the outcome would've been different had I voted.
"You have no one but yourself to blame" is one of those meaningless platitudes and slogans to which I previously referred.
Obama didn't show you why it's important to vote?
Obama is one among many people who proved to me the utter uselessness of voting. GW Bush is another one. This is what voting Republican got us:
This guy damaged America far worse than anyone before him or anyone who was running against him.
This is not a defense of Obama in any way, shape, manner or form, but the above quote is utter nonsense. Lincoln suspending the Constitution in order to justify the wholesale slaughter, torture, raping and pillaging of Americans who wished to separate from their current government just exactly like the government that formed just 80 years before had severed the ties that bound them involuntarily was WAY worse damage to the Constitution than anything Obama's done.
Woodrow Wilson overseeing
the illegal insertion of the 16th and 17th Amendments into the Constitution, and then creating the Federal Reserve, was WAY worse damage to the Constitution than anything Obama's done.
The burgeoning police state that every President for the last ~60 years has contributed mightily to includes Obama, but his predecessors are no less responsible just because he happens to be President now.
I could go on and on about how nearly every politician who ever served contributed every bit as much as Obama has to the decline of America, and to the criminalization and/or destruction of fundamental, God-given rights. Individual responsibility, self-reliance and as close to unlimited liberty that humans are capable of providing for themselves that attends that national mindset were dead long before any one of us ever even heard the name(s) Barack Barry Dunham Soetero Obama.
Possibly permanent, irreversible harm.
No "possibly" about it - the Constitution is dead, and along with it, the American Dream. Are you seriously trying to argue that either McCain or Romney could've resuscitated it? Pffft.
Re-electing Obama was like backing the Titanic up and hitting the iceberg a second time. Electing Romney would've been like hitting a second iceberg. Not a gnat's nose-hair worth of difference between either of 'em, or "any" of 'em if you want to expand the election cycles we're talking about.
If you don't have faith in the country that's fine, I don't either. But not voting is no answer. Sometimes we vote the lesser of two evils. When we don't we get Obama (or Hillary or Warren or Sanders).
More utter nonsense. I "let" you and the dupes who think their vote matters pretend to choose their leaders, while you try to hold me responsible for your own piss-poor decisions because I have the gall to call voting exactly what it is - a total waste of time. I'm not responsible for anyone who's in office if I didn't punch a hole in a card next to their name. By this pretzel-logic, you not voting for Obama makes you responsible for him being in office! Your presumption is that anyone who decided to vote because of this type of brow-beating and shaming by holier-than-thou people like you would've voted for McCain or Romney in the first place. To the extent that non-voters in the last two elections were more conservative than not, for many of us it is precisely because McCain and Romney were the candidates that we didn't vote. What conservative could possibly vote for a baby-killing, gun-grabbing, Unpatriot Act-supporting, 4th-Amendment-destroying, global-warming-believing hack like Romney? For you, I guess you need look no further than the closest mirror to answer that question. For me, I neither knowingly vote for such obviously progessives-in-Republican-clothing people, nor associate with people who do, so I'd have to look far and wide for someone I'd call a compatriot who voted for Obama with Good Hair, otherwise known as Romney.
And this lesser of two evils stuff is so much bovine excrement that I can hardly stand it. When you vote for evil in any degree, you are responsible for the evil those people or their policies commit. If the "lesser" evil starts another war, blood is on your hands. When they expand the police state, that is
your police state. And when they rip away what tiny morsels of freedom you still have, it is
you who has no one to blame but
yourself. In every one of those examples, I am responsible for none of it because my conscience doesn't allow me to knowingly vote for evil, whether evil has a (D)
or and (R) next to its name.