Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida


> Adrian:
> > John Cowan:
> >
> > > > This reminds me of my pet idea: allocate a bunch of new electoral
votes
> > > > for citizens of other nations. After all, who is President of the
U.S.
> > > > affects everyone on the planet.
> >
> > I assure you, the last thing non-Americans want is an election in which
we
> > have to be attentive to US affairs and be aware of US culture...
>
> Lots of non-Americans, me included, are very keen on US culture,
especially
> the more exportable aspects (e.g. _Friends_, E. A. Poe, John Cowan, Orson
> Welles, James McCawley, bits of the Constitution, as opposed to rife
firearms
> and assassination & lack of affordable health care).   --And.
The US is no different from any other country in that
it has its pluses and minuses. Among the minuses not
mentioned is the lack of campaign regulations that
prevent the (virtual) buying and selling of public office
and legislative decisions.

There are pluses too numerous to mention.

If the Electoral College worked as originally
intended, the "rational men" so elected would
work out something for "the good of the country"
-- like electing (say) McLain and Liberman --
a compromise that the people would IMO accept.
But the EC is a mere nothing, a useless remnant
composed of political hacks.

Actions of the Florida Legislature to select its own
unelected EC slate may in fact kill the EC, which
would be one good thing to come out of all this.