Politics Sucks.
Jul. 31st, 2006 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarSo I posted a bit on another forum about Michael Smith, the guy I posted about a few back right here and his impressive political platform.
Someone else posted a response not to vote for this guy if he makes it to the general election, or any third party candidate because that's how we wound up with Bush.
I know that you see my journal...this post isn't a criticism to you, it's just my thoughts on the subject in general, I've been hearing comments about this subject for at least a few elections now.
How is there supposed to be any chance of things improving in this country if we throw votes at some other guy just because they're on a major party? How are the other parties ever supposed to gain any status if people don't vote for their candidates? If you vote for the right candidate, they might win. If you vote for someone else, that's one more chance that they won't win.
Then again, I think the whole electoral college thing screws it all up and just needs to go. One person, one vote. One vote directly to the person that they're voting for that is.
I have a problem with voting for the second-least-sucky candidate. Or the least-sucky-candidate-on-a-major-party-ticket when someone else is six squillion times better.
Someone else posted a response not to vote for this guy if he makes it to the general election, or any third party candidate because that's how we wound up with Bush.
I know that you see my journal...this post isn't a criticism to you, it's just my thoughts on the subject in general, I've been hearing comments about this subject for at least a few elections now.
How is there supposed to be any chance of things improving in this country if we throw votes at some other guy just because they're on a major party? How are the other parties ever supposed to gain any status if people don't vote for their candidates? If you vote for the right candidate, they might win. If you vote for someone else, that's one more chance that they won't win.
Then again, I think the whole electoral college thing screws it all up and just needs to go. One person, one vote. One vote directly to the person that they're voting for that is.
I have a problem with voting for the second-least-sucky candidate. Or the least-sucky-candidate-on-a-major-party-ticket when someone else is six squillion times better.
