(February 2, 2018 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:My point is that the thing that's doing us in is unrepentant fractiousness.
I think complacency is the bigger problem. 100 million registered voters could not even bother to get off their asses last time around. And look at the piece of shit we ended up with.
So would you support mandatory voting? In my opinion it makes sense in a way of getting a better and more balanced sample of the population, but then it seems like more of a surface solution to a much deeper problem of people not caring and being informed about issues.