(September 18, 2020 at 9:59 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Keep voting - and nothing will.
Why not?
Because - you are going to be voting for politicians. Politicians who by nature are people who want to be in charge. They get aroused by power. They are twisted individuals that will say or do ANYTHING to get in, and stay in power. Anything you want is at the bottom of their priority list. Try sending them a letter sometime - and see what response you get. A form letter. Mailed by an unpaid flunky. You and your cause - whatever it is - means diddly squat to a politician. (unless for some twisted reason your cause is getting the politician elected.)
If you don't agree with this assessment - you are completely out of touch with reality.
So what to do?
How about we get rid of voting as it now exists? Voting is currently a monumental fuckfest - that wastes time, money, resources - and does it's absolute best to divide the country into two groups - The Good Guys (your party) and those Evil Other Motherfuckers.
Why not choose by lot?
Do it like the lottery. Every four years they have an hour long, live TV show on all networks - and they pull numbers out of a lottery type ball machine - to make Social Security Numbers.... Your number got pulled? OK bud - you are the Senator for the State of Ohio. Next.....
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You think this is a horrible idea? Some idiot might get into power?
Have you seen the President lately??? You really think by lot is going to be worse?
Of course there could be vetting to make sure the criminal, the insane or just total assholes don't get in charge....
Again - have you seen the President lately????
OR
Pull that lever - and see what ya get.
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This is nonsense.
Power, no matter if you end up with an open or closed society WILL always arise.
Please tell everyone here what your perfect idea would be.
You can't simply destroy a system without a plan to replace that system. And all powers that arise out of the ashes that they defeat, all still require funding and leadership.
Yes, humans seek power. But unlike closed states like North Korea, China, Russia in the west, as imperfect as we are, still have a far better chance of choosing our leadership.
An idiot is in power, yes. But it is still up to us to get him out of power.
North Korea actually does have voting. A clown show of a farce, but they do have voting.
