Were YOU? Thats relevant. This is your thread. I am asking YOU.
You only get one more dodge. For what its worth, I DO think voter apathy is an issue, while at the same time thanking every single person who couldn't find the wherewithal to get off their asses and vote, for doing precisely the right thing. On Nov 5, 11:05 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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$, > --MJExcept in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of > orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority > is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one > percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The > rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a > satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and > for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome > method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd > tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political > device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the > opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the > whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a > majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man. -- Walter LippmannAt > 10:41 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote:Relevance? > You're complaining about people not voting on Tuesday, but more people > did than the last time. Were you and Mr Knaap upset then too? > How hard is this? > DID YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM IN 06 THAT YOU PURPORT TO HAVE THIS > TIME? > This ain't particle physics > On Nov 5, 10:03 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 09:01 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote: > > > > >Lets try it again > > > > >Turnout was MUCH higher Tuesday than in the 06 midterms, when the > > >dems > > >won. Where was this idiot Knapp then? > > > > Again what has your fallacious efforts to do with anything? > > > > Who gives two shits that turnout was purportedly bigger in 10 than 06? > > What relevance is it to the 58% of those with the Government's > > permission said they wanted no part in the charade? > > What relevance is it to the 71%? > > > > Regard$, > > --MJ > > > > You can't reason somebody out of something they > > weren't reasoned into. -- L. Neil Smith > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
