hypothetically, if one person voted, you could say there was an election and there would be no automatic or obvious reason why everything else in the country would not continue on as normal. so we essentially have a system that is not dependent in any meaningful sense on voter participation because the whole thing could run on one vote. the other thing i find amusing is the fact that most people who do bother to vote, which is really a pretty paltry perecentage in the united states especially, think that liberty=pushing a button every couple years, something you could train a bunch of chimps to go in a booth and do. what a situation, huh wolf blitzer?
ya know what's funny about elections?
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::uses a quote from Oceans Eleven in a different context::
Matt Damon: "So it's a simple smash and grab, right?"
Brad Pitt: "It's a little more complicated than that."
Matt Damon: "Well, yeah..."
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Good analogy. If you're talking about electing a head of the student body.
Matt Damon: "So it's a simple smash and grab, right?"
Brad Pitt: "It's a little more complicated than that."
Matt Damon: "Well, yeah..."
~~~~~~~~~
Good analogy. If you're talking about electing a head of the student body.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM_l443VV4
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I am an anarchist
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Oh what a name
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Right ! now ! ha ha ha ha ha
I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Dont know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
No dogs body
Anarchy for the u.k its coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a trafic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
In the city
How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy I use anarchy cos i
I wanna be anarchy !
The only way to be !
Is this the m.p.l.a
Or is this the u.d.a
Or is this the i.r.a
I thought it was the u.k or just
Another country
Another council tenancy
I wanna be an anarchist
Oh what a name
Get pissed destroy !
true. it's a little more complicated, but not much more. maybe you would need 3 or 6 or 14 people. and make sure one votes in each state for congress and whatnot. but the basic principle of the most minimal imaginable participation being compatible with a technically functioning "democracy" is chilling. we already are mostly chimps pushing buttons in booths, but i guess the chimps could get so lazy, apathetic and cynical that one day they will more or less completely forego button pushing and just passively rot in virtual reality.
ya know whats' really funny? when one guy gets more votes, but he loses the election because the founders decided that the population was too stupid to be able to delegate by popular decision and instead leaves it up to a preset number of votes from each state. how's that for a democracy?
does this make any sense?
Yeah I don't think 'the founders' found the idea of a 'true' democracy a good idea.
A quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson(paraphrased): "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%"
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