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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (72489)	1/24/2006 2:27:42 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 81568

"There is nothing wrong with US democracy", well, everyone else but the few other 2-party, single-district-winner-takes-all nations agree that everything is wrong. Note, they (mainly UK and Canada) are busy working on their own slightly more evolved solutionm. (Australia and especially New Zealand, even little Malta, already did it) What is worse, they, still left so (colonial??) backwards, do not gerrymander as freely as USA. The rest of the world just have fun with the gerrymandering of the pseudo-democracy of USA, but fear the possibility that the regular usonian would understand it. Btw, not even Castro can gerrymander as freely and constitutionally as USA. Bt-Btw, a more correct sentence would be "what is not wrong with the US democracy"?? That is, it starts from the fact that voting districts must be gerrymander to do exactly what they were not gerrymandered to do only some 40 years ago, yes?? You all learned and understood that in primary school, no?? Additionally the fact that they now have been gerrymandered differently for since 1995.. Specifically that nobody is supposed to understand anything.. No wonder so few vote.. (skipping those more sexy little traditional tweaks of voting machines,etc).. However, "the gerrymandered two-party system has served USA well" because it could have gone much worse for many more milleniums (Civil rights was smartly gerrymandered, despite the population, just like Jim Crow) PS Where else could somebody like Karl Rove become an expert on manipulating something as simple as the USA funny system?? (not even in Zimbabwe)

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (72489)	1/24/2006 2:34:35 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 81568

What is _not_ wrong with the US democracy?? That is a tough question. "to question or not to question, that is the answer" as somebody said about something rotten in London. (denmark actually has a semi-smart system) Btw, it all went wrong with those US civil rights, only a well manipulated pseudo-democracy system could implement that. hmm, can't count the votes, and who would anyway vote in a safe single-seat-well-gerrymandered-winner-takes-all system?? Why even bother to register?? However, most constructive steps in US history would not have been possible without the same pseudo-democracy, just like all the rest of the funny ones. (that includes turning the couunting wheels in those mechanical IBM counting machines, when that is needed) fec.org sorry, wrong link fec.gov Very old internet-joke.. That is, the US "democracy" is supposed to be easy to handle, in any direction or way. That is, do not blame the Karl Roves, they just do what they should be doing.