No offense taken, Keith. I don't by any means wish to say that things are not bad (in fact some of my friends seem to regard me as the local Sarcophagus McAbre), I just think that negative voting has some potential for making them worse.
Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Keith Addison wrote: > I'm sorry Doug, I didn't mean to be rude, I hope you're not offended. > > > >The problem with negative voting is that you can be left without a > > >legislator from a given constituency, or without an executive - maybe > > >without a functioning legitimate government. > > It's not easy to find such a thing anyway, and never has been. > > "Legitimate" means in accordance with the law. Who makes the law? The > government does. Ah, but they're elected by the people to represent > the people's interests. Well, are they really. > > It's the time of the Other Superpower, and the powers-that-be are > seeing the signs: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg58869.html > [Biofuel] A global public opinion survey shows people losing faith in > governments > 16 Dec 2005 > ... "an alarming picture of declining levels of trust". (Davos) > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg58999.html > [Biofuel] New Surveys Show That Big Business Has a P.R. Problem > New York Times, December 9, 2005 > "More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it." > > Etc etc. So let's put it to the test. Who exactly do our elected > representatives really represent? Everybody knows the answer to that. > The trouble is they "know" a whole lot of other stuff too. Such as > that elections are level, and indeed that they count at all, that > their vote matters. > > > > > Or maybe there'd be record high turn-outs and we'd get > > > > to see if anybody had a mandate at all, including the entire system. > > That's what Davos et al have to demonstrate beyond any doubt if > they're so concerned about their "alarming picture of declining > levels of trust". That's what the Other Superpower wants too. So > let's see them do it. Or let's kick them out. > > Best wishes > > Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
