Let's dial it back, PDF and GhaudePhaede010.
I. Boycotting elections accomplishes very little if half the people already don't vote and you just give everyone else who disagrees an easy win. Boycotting elections only works if you do it in such huge numbers that it draws attention to the injustices you want corrected. That's just not going to happen so you're wasting your vote.
II. The whole point of having a democratic republic instead of a straight democracy is that the country is too big for the latter to be effective. There are just too many things to worry about. Democracy fails when the voters are insufficiently educated in what they're voting on. Right now our elected representatives aren't conscientious enough either but your solution would only worsen the problem.
II.B @ PDF: We have a democratic republic, not a democracy. There have been democratically elected kings, but those countries were not "democracies". Repeat: we have a REPUBLIC whose representatives are elected democratically. Not a "democracy". (But then again, California does have an awful lot of referendums...)
III. I stand by my earlier post.
Tag (courtesy of fkusumot): "Please feel free -- nay, I encourage you -- to offer rebuttal."
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My advice to fanboys: Brag about stuff that's true, not about stuff that's false. Predict stuff that's likely, not stuff that's unlikely. You will be happier, and we will be happier.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Sen. Pat Moynihan
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I have the most epic death scene ever in VGChartz Mafia. Thanks WordsofWisdom!
