[mack]

I just saw a south park episode on the "turd sandwich and giant duesh bag"... Basicly Kyle does not want to vote for either canidate and they both suck. And i was thinking about this and i feel the same way. I know the election is over, and i feel that both canidates sucked, but i think this is still relevant.

I was wondering why this is so, we have two parties wich are very different.. but what if my canidate is not on the list? It occured to me that the only reason these two parties make it to the top is because of money. I think this is a bad idea and some what of a threat. This has probably been thought of before and I am in no way taking the credit, but what if each canidate were only allowed to spend X ammount of dollars and the press had to be pretty equal in its covering of the race?

EDIT: if this has already been posted let me know.

 

[Silver]

Dear lord....

It was Stan, btw, no Kyle.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

i have thought about that, but i came to the conclusion of:

if there are 2 candidates and you dont care about each, not voting doesnt equate into not deciding who wins.

if there are only and only 2, and you dont like neither, you MUST choose one, not choosing is the same as giving your vote to the winner anyways....

 

[Kihaji]

i have thought about that, but i came to the conclusion of:

if there are 2 candidates and you dont care about each, not voting doesnt equate into not deciding who wins.

if there are only and only 2, and you dont like neither, you MUST choose one, not choosing is the same as giving your vote to the winner anyways....

But by not voting, you are in fact voting. Not for the seat in government, but you non-vote is sending a message to these parties that thier candidates suck.

Problem is the parties think like the RIAA, they dont see a decline in sales(votes) as a marker that they have a a crappy product(candidates), but instead the public is lazy.

 

[fluff]

Dude, the two parties are so close that they occupy almost the exact same space in the political spectrum.

Don't like any of the candidates? Write that on your ballot paper.

 

[mack]

Dear lord....

It was Stan, btw, no Kyle.

I thought it was a good episode. :eviltongu:

 

[MMike]

canDidate.....

 

[mack]

canDidate.....

Im at it again!

 

[chicodude]

You know whats weird? I read one of my earlier posts on this site today and I could of sworn it was mack.


Hm........I guess he'll grow out of it.....I hope.....

 

[Toshi]

But by not voting, you are in fact voting. Not for the seat in government, but you non-vote is sending a message to these parties that thier candidates suck.

Problem is the parties think like the RIAA, they dont see a decline in sales(votes) as a marker that they have a a crappy product(candidates), but instead the public is lazy.

you provided a rebuttal for your first paragraph in your second. good work, saving us the hard task of putting "words" together in coherent "sentences"

 

[fluff]

you provided a rebuttal for your first paragraph in your second. good work, saving us the hard task of putting "words" together in coherent "sentences"

He almost had a point...

There should be an option on the ballot paper to show that the vote was deliberately not cast (a none-of-the-above). Sadly the powers that be know only too well that would damage their claim to be a representative government with a public mandate. After all even if Bush gathered more votes than Kerry he still was elected by less than 50% of the (franchised) US public.

 

[Ciaran]

Mack, you should know by know that it's all about money here in the US. When was the last time you saw a poor person run for political office? The government doesn't run this country... big business runs this country.

That aside, I think your spelling is improving... a little.

 

[mack]

Mack, you should know by know that it's all about money here in the US. When was the last time you saw a poor person run for political office? The government doesn't run this country... big business runs this country.

That aside, I think your spelling is improving... a little.

Youd be interested to know that Dio (the kick ass rocker) tried to run for president. :devil: Holy Dive this sucker!