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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 775992" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Thank you! I'd never take anyone else's right to vote away and there is an arguement to vote on local issues and there may be merit in that for sure. However, until we begin to see the 2 politcal parites as nothing more than one is a type of GM and the other a type Ford yet even though we dislike the product, we continue to buy, this only encourages the product to never change. At the same time GM voters are told by GM that if they don't vote then the Fords will take over and visa versa and thus the voter goes to the polls more out of fear of the other brand than out of principle or belief to principle. We vote not "for" something but rather "against" something.</p><p> </p><p>In that framework, where is the market incentive to really change the product offered to the voting public?</p><p> </p><p>Like so much in our society today, we operate out of reaction to fear and not principle. No wonder everyone we elect always sucks!</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Mencken has a way of pointing out the obvious while leaving room for the reader to see it from it's humor as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 775992, member: 2189"] Thank you! I'd never take anyone else's right to vote away and there is an arguement to vote on local issues and there may be merit in that for sure. However, until we begin to see the 2 politcal parites as nothing more than one is a type of GM and the other a type Ford yet even though we dislike the product, we continue to buy, this only encourages the product to never change. At the same time GM voters are told by GM that if they don't vote then the Fords will take over and visa versa and thus the voter goes to the polls more out of fear of the other brand than out of principle or belief to principle. We vote not "for" something but rather "against" something. In that framework, where is the market incentive to really change the product offered to the voting public? Like so much in our society today, we operate out of reaction to fear and not principle. No wonder everyone we elect always sucks! [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] Mencken has a way of pointing out the obvious while leaving room for the reader to see it from it's humor as well. [/QUOTE]
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