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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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 Posted - 12/07/2007 : 06:32:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by chaloobi
Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by chaloobi
Originally posted by Dude
chaloobi said:
| And this perfectly illustrates what poor shape the American 'democracy' is in. You get a choice between two not so different parties and if you don't care for the candidate of the party that vaguely resembles what you believe in, your next best choice is to sit it out. WTF??? |
I've never sat out an election since I was old enough to vote. This is the first tie I've considered it.
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Our democracy is ill nonetheless.
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Yes, gone are the good ol' days when the standard bearer of the party was chosen behind closed doors in smoke filled rooms at national conventions by a few party big wigs after making deals…
The good ol' days of honest electioneering probably never existed. But gosh darn it, those elections were a lot more fun…
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While I'm a big fan of sarcasm, even out-of-left-field sarcasm like this, I still believe our election system needs some serious reform. And it doesn't matter if it was worse at some time in the past; in the present, it needs reform.
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Oh, I agree. Just thought I would point out that our democracy has probably never risen to anything even remotely close to, well, what our romanticized version of a democracy is.
Not saying that you have romanticized the past as much as I just followed my thoughts on the subject however sarcastically put they were...
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In a lot of ways our democracy has improved a hell of a lot - heck today you don't have to own land, be male and white to vote. On the other hand, I own land, I'm male and I'm white, so all this so called improvement has actually diluted my voting power.  But the way we elect our President is especially bad and the Federal Legislature isn't so good either. We could do a hell of a lot better and not be in the realm of pie in the sky romanticism. |
-Chaloobi
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| Edited by - chaloobi on 12/07/2007 06:33:40 |
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