Re: OT: For information only !

I think this is the unavoidable dead-end of any
democratic system: 50% of the voters vote for Mr A
because they are against Mr B, and the other 50% do
the contrary. Usually, they just don't really know why
they are against Mr A or Mr B, but this doesn't
matter. And besides, a huge number of electors don't
vote at all, but we shall do just as we don't see
them, or as they don't exist.

So when they is a possibility to express oneself by
voting for some sympathetic small list having
absolutely no chance to gain anything, I think it's
worth voting. This was the case today (only one round,
so all lists were present, and you hadn't to choose
between the above Mr A and Mr B). In other cases, it's
just as well to go out fishing, bicycling, or to study
Georgian grammar a little closer.

--- Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > Philippe Caquant wrote:
> >
> > >Well, among these lists (conservatives,
> socialists,
> > >trotskists, royalists, ecologists, anti-taxe-ists
> and
> > >many more), I discovered an Esperantist one !
> They
> > >have a site from which you can print you voting
> > >bulletin:
> > >
> >
> > Why don't we get this kind of thing in the UK?  We
> get fascists,
> > Eurosceptics, crazy independants, greens,
> communists and the
> > Establishment parties.
> >
> > It's unfair, I tell you.
> >
> Whatever became of the Silly Party, or am I
> confusing Art and Life?
>
> <mild rant>
> Here in the US, it has often been said in recent
> years that if "None of the
> above" were a choice on the ballot, it would win in
> a landslide.
>
> After the very close 2000 election, some wag said
> that the almost 50/50
> popular vote showed that the American People didn't
> want either one of those
> bozos.
> </mild rant>
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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