From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 13:30:34 MDT
On 15 Sep 2002 at 12:36, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees]
> He obviously knows little about the US. We have our own method of
> regime change here; it's called the popular vote. We'll leave the
> armed uprisings to the people whose governments are authoritarian and
> antidemocratic enough to require them.
>
>
> [rhinoceros]
> I have been thinking about democracy as a philosophical ideal and as a
> government system in connection to why Bush, with his specific
> (dis)abilities and traits, was nominated from his party and then
> (almost) elected. I am not talking about how media manipulations or
> mischief were possibly carried out; I am talking about what is implied
> by these facts. Why not some other republican? Is democracy really
> working as supposed to, according to its philosophical basis?
>
I believe that the electoral college should be abolished and that
elections should be decided by direct popular vote. There was a need
for electors 200 years ago before we developed out present
transportation and communications technology; the system is not an
obsolete anachronism, and should be repealed.
>
> ----
> This message was posted by rhinoceros to the Virus 2002 board on
> Church of Virus BBS.
> <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=51;action=display;thread
> id=26597>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:28:58 MDT