(September 15, 2017 at 8:02 am)Khemikal Wrote: I was super busy intentionally not voting. Remember, before the election, how I suggested that one way to effect change in government, if the government itself were competently resistant to change via it's own claimed channels, was for a situation to develop in which only a small minority of americans voted for some winning president. How a "mandate" coming from, say, 25% of we the people isn't authoritative and would be internationally risible on it's face?
Looks like we've got that.
Wait. Your solution to "fixing" our democracy is to stop voting?
How is that going to help anything?
You realize that if people stop voting and the Republicans carry on gerrymandering districts to the point where they end up gaining majority control in 34 states that they can call a Constitutional Convention and start amending the constitution?
How do you think the first amendment will fair after a party of Ted Cruz's and Mike Pence's get done with it?
Which religion do you think they'll enshrine as the one and only true religion that everyone now has to practice?
How long will it be before teaching evolution is completely outlawed? Or climate change?
And how long after that will American scientific institutions start crumbling? And after that, the economy?
People like Donald Jackass Trump will not give a shit that they don't have a mandate to govern. They will care that they've got the receipt that shows they won, no matter how it happened. Evidence: the 2016 general election.
The solution to fixing our democracy isn't for everyone to stop voting, it's to educate people better and to get them to care enough and informed enough to vote.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
