no alarms and no surprises

[liquidmorpheme]

So the emerging scene is far less than we deserve, and the outcome is far from certain, but I think that misses the point. When it's all over, I'm selling t-shirts that say, "I made it through the Bush Administration."
Ciro
-- "Great political parties, then, are not to be met with in the United States at the present time. Parties, indeed, may be

Comments

[pinkheadriot]

Please reserve the second shirt for me...:)

[liquidmorpheme]

That's beautiful.

Voting isn't important; informed voting is.

[bluezybunny]

Any ideas who you'll be voting for this election?

-Bluezy Bunny

Re: Voting isn't important; informed voting is.

[liquidmorpheme]

Actually I have to disagree with you. The notion of informed voting making a huge difference in a time when candidates have such huge ideological gulfs between them doesn't seem so important to me. It doesn't take a lot to see the differences between the people you're looking at. Sadly.

Worse than that, though, you've essentially relegated the uneducated (ie. the poor) to non-voter status, which significantly decreases voter turnout and creates a kind of voting elite, where a largely white voting body stamps the ballot to protect their own interests. What we're getting now, in other words.

I say everyone votes, and if you don't, you pay a fine. No reason we should have the lowest turn-out of all industrialized democracies.

Re: Voting isn't important; informed voting is.

[bluezybunny]

I think you responded more to my subject than to my question

[noimosyni]

I'll buy a few of those off you you. Let me know the cost.