Don't just vote ... COMPLAIN!

I have been reading the usual spate of writers telling you that if you don't vote, you shouldn't complain.  Well, that seems downright un-American. Remember, the whole War for Independence (or "revolution" depending on where you stood) was about complaining without voting. Also inalienable rights. Inalienable whether one votes or not.

And what about people who pay taxes but cannot vote?  They contribute.  Why can't they have a say in how the money is wasted?  I think Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson would say they should.

It seems to me, it is one's duty and obligation to complain about injustice.  I refuse to believe that a prerequisite for complaining is casting a vote for a Republicrat, bought and sold by the same people. Or even voting for a third party and being coopted and marginalized. 

Dissent is alive and well and no amount of self congratulations about voting can change that.  I VOTE.  And I welcome complainers, dissenters, protesters and people of all kind to the public debate. What are we afraid of?