Mecha, in his long-winded way, said some of the things I would have said if I could articulate them that well. Of course, he also got way more up in arms about it than I can really manage.
In America, at least, it really would be coin-flip-esque. This is a country where millions of people are struggling to keep their heads above water, financially. They've got no health insurance and their jobs pay far below a living wage. The public schools they send their children to are underfunded to the point that I'm betting a lot of history books still show the USSR on their maps. And yet how do many of these people vote? Why, for the Tax Cuts For The Rich, Keep Health Care Privatized, Keep Minimum Wage Low party. Just because they heard on TV that the dirty liberals want to welcome terrorists into the country with beaming faces and open arms.
Maybe in other countries the mass of voters can be trusted to know what's best for them; I doubt it, because People Is Dumb. Either way, here, half the country can't even understand the basic concept of "vote your pocketbook".
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Date: 2006-11-10 12:08 am (UTC)In America, at least, it really would be coin-flip-esque. This is a country where millions of people are struggling to keep their heads above water, financially. They've got no health insurance and their jobs pay far below a living wage. The public schools they send their children to are underfunded to the point that I'm betting a lot of history books still show the USSR on their maps. And yet how do many of these people vote? Why, for the Tax Cuts For The Rich, Keep Health Care Privatized, Keep Minimum Wage Low party. Just because they heard on TV that the dirty liberals want to welcome terrorists into the country with beaming faces and open arms.
Maybe in other countries the mass of voters can be trusted to know what's best for them; I doubt it, because People Is Dumb. Either way, here, half the country can't even understand the basic concept of "vote your pocketbook".