You think that just because MORE people -- but still considerably less than 50% -- voted that something definitive was related?
You think that 29% should lord over 71%?
Whether or not Knapp was upset last time (whatever that means) is and remains wholly irrelevant..
Regard$,
--MJ
Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man. -- Walter Lippmann
At 10:41 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote:
Relevance?--
You're complaining about people not voting on Tuesday, but more people
did than the last time. Were you and Mr Knaap upset then too?
How hard is this?
DID YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM IN 06 THAT YOU PURPORT TO HAVE THIS
TIME?
This ain't particle physics
On Nov 5, 10:03 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 09:01 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote:
>
> >Lets try it again
>
> >Turnout was MUCH higher Tuesday than in the 06 midterms, when the
> >dems
> >won. Where was this idiot Knapp then?
>
> Again what has your fallacious efforts to do with anything?
>
> Who gives two shits that turnout was purportedly bigger in 10 than 06?
> What relevance is it to the 58% of those with the Government's
> permission said they wanted no part in the charade?
> What relevance is it to the 71%?
>
> Regard$,
> --MJ
>
> You can't reason somebody out of something they
> weren't reasoned into. -- L. Neil Smith
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