non voters

MikeyDB

House Member
Jun 9, 2006
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No I'm not "angry" that no one cares, no one ever has cared about anyone but themselves. Sure there've been celebrations of massive death and destruction in the name of nationalism and patriotism and religious belief and ideological nonsense, but it all boils down to a willingness on the part of humanity to regard their existence as seperate and distant from the existence of every other person. Humanity draws lines and forms belief structures and political paradigms not because they're willing to regard all living things as a part of this existence but to regard their particular slice of this temporal reality as more important and more worthy of bending to their individual will and interests than they are being a part of something.

We have enormous threads here at CC arguing about global warming...we have injustices and inequities supported by good folk buying their goods without concern or consideration of where they come from or who suffers for that bargain....

Extinction is OK with me, perhaps if a species of humankind evolves after the train has stopped it might go a different direction....

Lemmings running to the sea is how humanity has behaved and it will have the same conclusion.
 

Pangloss

Council Member
Mar 16, 2007
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Calgary, Alberta
Voting is a tiny tiny part of the democratic process. How many people here belong to a political party? Donate to a political party/cause? Volunteer for the candidate of their choice?

How about belonging to your local community association or an advocacy group for some issue you believe in?

Asking your city "alderperson" if you can sit on some committee?

Voting is but one very small step in the democratic process.

Also, I'd agree to mandatory voting if "None Of The Above" also appeared on the ballot, and if that option won, non of the candidates would be allowed to run for two electoral cycles.

Pangloss
 

Kreskin

Doctor of Thinkology
Feb 23, 2006
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Isn't there statistical probability in the voting system? More people voting is likely to reinforce the trend made by a smaller number.
 

Kreskin

Doctor of Thinkology
Feb 23, 2006
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A telephone poll of 1,000 people will tell us how 1,000,000 will likely vote. Won't more votes be cast in similar trend no matter how many vote?
 

Pangloss

Council Member
Mar 16, 2007
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Calgary, Alberta
Ah, of course - the representative sample. However - what if everybody did vote? There'd possibly be more serious coverage of political issues in the press, maybe we'd have better candidates. . .

Or maybe not. Maybe we'd just turn them into celebrities.

Sigh.

Pangloss