Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:33:05 +0000 Subject: Re: electoral vote Well, it looks like I got it completely wrong. I put this down to two things. (1) My eternally sunny and optimistic nature. (2) The sheer oddness of the USA compared with the vast majority of humankind. It is a fact that when you get a greatly increased number of folk voting this is usually bad news for the folks currently in office. That was true in Spain, and it is true in most of the rest of the world. When you see long queues of folk patiently waiting to vote, this is usually because they want a change. Yes, I know from an anarchist point of view there is no change, but the point is that, usually, when you get large numbers determined to vote, it is because they _believe_ that they are voting for change. It is not usually the case that you get huge numbers of folk turning out because they are keen to request that the existing government gives them more of the same. I can only conclude that the USA is in the grip of a huge epidemic of infectious stupidity, and be glad that I managed to rescue at least one refugee (actually, two) from that terrible fate. Erik wrote > in belgium vote is compulsary, so i went everytime. Living in a country where I am free to vote or not to vote, I sometimes do and sometimes don't. But if I lived in one of them totalitarian regimes like Belchum or Oztralia where voting is compulsory, then I would see it as a matter of principle and a matter of honour to refuse to vote. > erik (once a catholic, always a catholic) Dave (once a protestant, always a protestant)
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