Electoral System

This topic was created in the Politics forum by Gwendylyn Post on Thursday, December 19, 2002 and has 15 replies.

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@Gwendylyn Post
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How would you feel if our government's system of electing changed from winner-take-all to proportional representation? Would it make you vote more often? Less often? WHat are your thoughts?

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

I think our current method is illogical. I think the most popular candidate should win, pure and simple. *sigh*...Gore is still my President 🙂

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

I highly disagree, I think laws and such are necessary. Even *with* laws, there is a lot of chaos and unruliness.

What we need to do, is clone judge judy, and put troops of judge judys in every city and county

lol

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@Morganofmind
21 Years1,000+ Posts

Nah... I think if we go back to a state of nature, we'll just let all the stupid and violent people kill eachother off, and then the smarter more reasonable people will survive...

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@Gwendylyn Post
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morgan there are some holes... the Stupid Violent people will be jealous of our Intellectualism and think we are Weak and kill us off. It's the Bully-vs-Nerd complex.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

the question is...why can't a smart person be violent?

*sharpens knife* 🙂

But anyway Gwen, consider this: the Smart People will be smart enough to thwart any possible killing sprees the Stupid Violent People might intend to go on, so therefore, if we can just *quarantine* the Stupid Violent People....like put them in a large vat of jello, and then wrap them all in saran wrap, we might survive.

But then, who knows, maybe deep down, I'm a Stupid Violent Person.

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@Morganofmind
21 Years1,000+ Posts

Phoenix, I was kind of thinking along those lines, except for the jello part...

I'm a smart violent person... HEHEHE!!! The world will be mine!!! MINE!!! ALL MINE!!! BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

as long as I get to saran-wrap people and put them in jello, I'll be happy with that. 🙂

Morgan...as ruler-ess of the world, what do you plan to do about the rude employees at the DMV?

And please, could you find a way for me to *have* more money, but *work less*...?

lol

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@Morganofmind
21 Years1,000+ Posts

In my world,there is no DMV... And you don't need money, if you want something, you can get your saran wrap jello people to get it for you...

~Not Crazy Future Dictator

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@Gwendylyn Post
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Ok let me get this right. You take all the stupid violent people of the world... put them naked in a vat of jello.....can I volunteer?

🙂

ps. Pheonix, don't encourage her. She'll begin to think it is possible.

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@Libragirl
21 Years500+ Posts

While the 'reasonable' people are busy being reasonable, the smarter people are walking all over them, therefore it is smarter to be less reasonable.

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