Comment Re:We are now living with the 21st century equivel (Score 1) 851
do you think your vote really made the difference?
Did I ever say that I thought my vote made a difference? No I simply said that people who argue "This is not a democracy, it is a republic" are wrong. We live in a democratic republic. The money is what gets the votes. No shit. But the fact that votes are being cast by citizens and not by the representatives of those citizens (as in my example of voting down the sports stadium initiative) shows that democracy does exist in America, maybe not so much at the national level but most certainly at the local level.
Take for example the fact that Bill Clinton and the DNC received the most money in his 1994 reelection campaign [...]
What does that have to do with anything? Did I say that I though the gubment was not corrupt? Did I say that Bill Clinton and George Bush were not corporate puppets? You seem to be reading waaay to much into a simple statement that I made.
You just keep muttering that to yourself when you stand in that voting booth next time.
Yeah. Your right. From now on I should just stay home and not get involved. I mean if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal right? Especially at all those local ballot initiatives that are sometimes decided by a few hundred votes. The kind of initiatives put forth by Christian supremacists that try to get Harry Potter books banned from school librarys. I'll just ignore that kind of stuff going on in my own backyard because my vote won't make a difference anyways.
Did I ever say that I thought my vote made a difference? No I simply said that people who argue "This is not a democracy, it is a republic" are wrong. We live in a democratic republic. The money is what gets the votes. No shit. But the fact that votes are being cast by citizens and not by the representatives of those citizens (as in my example of voting down the sports stadium initiative) shows that democracy does exist in America, maybe not so much at the national level but most certainly at the local level.
Take for example the fact that Bill Clinton and the DNC received the most money in his 1994 reelection campaign [...]
What does that have to do with anything? Did I say that I though the gubment was not corrupt? Did I say that Bill Clinton and George Bush were not corporate puppets? You seem to be reading waaay to much into a simple statement that I made.
You just keep muttering that to yourself when you stand in that voting booth next time.
Yeah. Your right. From now on I should just stay home and not get involved. I mean if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal right? Especially at all those local ballot initiatives that are sometimes decided by a few hundred votes. The kind of initiatives put forth by Christian supremacists that try to get Harry Potter books banned from school librarys. I'll just ignore that kind of stuff going on in my own backyard because my vote won't make a difference anyways.
