Food for Thought: Our World

[SeaMonkey]

The American Political System in painful TRUTH.

[Dog-One]

I cannot believe "the owners" are worried about much of anything, but it is amusing to see the runaway republican candidate take so much abuse from his own party.

After all, there is still plenty of time to start a nasty destructive war that will eliminate all doubt who is the boss of this planet.  Let'm eat cake.  Better yet, let'm eat each other.


      "We all got it coming kid." -- Will Munny, Unforgiven

[SeaMonkey]

Aye, this election, and America as well, is rather at a
crossroads.  Since there really is no power in the
vote, perhaps the better option is not to vote.

[conradelektro]

Aye, this election, and America as well, is rather at a
crossroads.  Since there really is no power in the
vote, perhaps the better option is not to vote.

Only about 50% of all people who theoretically could vote are registered voters.

Only about 50% of the registered voters actually vote (which is about 25% of all theoretical voters).

A president usually wins the election with a bit more than 50% of the actual votes,

which means tha about 12% to maybe 18% of all theoretical voters have voted for a president.


If you want to tweak the numbers a bit optimistically, you could claim that 20% (of all who could vote) voted for a president.

And you think that anybody would care if that percentage gets even lower?

Greetings, Conrad

[Dog-One]

The interesting thing to me is this:  People vote every day with their wallet.  They choose how to earn and spend their money.  From what I see of this activity, very few are pulling out of the system, which for the most part perpetuates this system.  Until that changes in any significant way, we can count on more of the same.  The problem is simple, there are no real viable alternatives to the system we have.  We cannot just stop going to work or stop going to the grocery store.  It would take many years of careful planning and conscious decision making to withdraw from the system and become truly independent.  And how long would that last?  One bad weather year and all the food grown is gone; then you starve.  So to survive it would take groups of people all moving together, basically the same mechanism as an insurance policy.  It's a catch-22.  You can't all move together at the same time, but if you don't, you fail.  So we have this system and we are pretty much stuck with it.