Duh-mock-racE
Not that you asked, but this is why I don't vote.
Using the presidential election as an example, I create four categories of people that may or may not vote and explain how that affects the election. In democracy, you're only concerned with the majority of people. I feel that there are two groups of majorities: the educated and the ignorant. Opposite majority is the minority, and they have educated and ignorant folk as well.
I estimate the populations in these four categories as such:
Educated Majority 20%
Ignorant Majority 45%
Educated Minority 10%
Ignorant Minority 25%
The educated and the ignorant pinned against each other isn't a good situation because there are always going to be more idiots that geniuses..... and this is assuming that everyone will vote...
Assuming that the educated majority will be most likely to vote, and not all of the ignorant majority will vote, the educated majority has a chance of making a difference. Unfortunately, not all of the educated majority will band together - they will vote for republican and democrat candidates, and the part of the ignorant majority that does choose to vote will simply choose the candidate that has the "better" campaign (ie more re$ource$ at their disposal), as long as this person fits the expectation of the public (ie male, white).
Why would I want to get involved in this cluster-fuck? Personally, I would want to vote for someone that I actually want to be in office, rather than having to choose the lesser idiot from the republican and democrat parties. If I vote for the libertarian candidate, for example, I would just be taking away a vote that I would have placed toward the lesser-idiot, meaning the bigger idiot has a better chance of winning if I vote the way I'd like. Because I am put in this ridiculous democratic bind, I choose not to vote at all. If I don't actually have a say, what's the point? The "majority" is just going to prevail anyway. I don't know when people are going to realize that when they make decisions in large groups, it usually doesn't work out too well. WHat if EVERYONE agreed on things. What if you didn't have to follow a law unless you voted for it to be a law. What if you didn't have to pay fines that you didn't agree to be put in place? What if EVERYONE had to agree ?
Things would be a lot different. Of course, it would be too ridiculous to try and make everyone in the entire country agree on the same things. Which is why people should govern themselves in small communities; they could all easily agree on laws that they could follow. Then, if the federal government wants to keep their militaries and welfare and whatever else, that is a great service that the government could provide - they wouldn't have to concentrate on making laws and forcing a lot of different people with a lot of different beliefs to follow the same steps. The northwest is incredibly different from the southeast. This country is large, and we have a lot of different cultures, religions, and beliefs. If small communities governed themselves, they would most likely share religion and culture, which forms and shapes their beliefs and morals, so they would probably agree to follow the same laws. What's wrong to do in oregon can be completely different in Tennessee. People could travel in search of a community that shared their beliefs - or start new ones if they couldn't find like-minded communities. It could be so much better. But, alas, the catch: everyone would have to agree on it in a large group in order to disband what we've got going on now. And, as we've seen, the majority won't make the smartest decisions. They will never choose what is actually best for them. And even if if they did choose what was best for them, it wouldn't be what was best for the minority, ensuring that they always lose out. Assuming that everyone is the same and everyone should have to conform to one, large set of ideals is ridiculous, and our country should know better by now. Create value out of diversity, we need to allow for diversity if we're ever going to value it.
Also, I don't vote in the presidential election because I don't really care which heartless, bloated, over-sexed, pig-of-a man is majority picked (if you even believe that the shit ain't rigged anyway) to run this bloated, over-sexed, pig-of-a country.
I love America. I just want it to be better.
Using the presidential election as an example, I create four categories of people that may or may not vote and explain how that affects the election. In democracy, you're only concerned with the majority of people. I feel that there are two groups of majorities: the educated and the ignorant. Opposite majority is the minority, and they have educated and ignorant folk as well.
I estimate the populations in these four categories as such:
Educated Majority 20%
Ignorant Majority 45%
Educated Minority 10%
Ignorant Minority 25%
The educated and the ignorant pinned against each other isn't a good situation because there are always going to be more idiots that geniuses..... and this is assuming that everyone will vote...
Assuming that the educated majority will be most likely to vote, and not all of the ignorant majority will vote, the educated majority has a chance of making a difference. Unfortunately, not all of the educated majority will band together - they will vote for republican and democrat candidates, and the part of the ignorant majority that does choose to vote will simply choose the candidate that has the "better" campaign (ie more re$ource$ at their disposal), as long as this person fits the expectation of the public (ie male, white).
Why would I want to get involved in this cluster-fuck? Personally, I would want to vote for someone that I actually want to be in office, rather than having to choose the lesser idiot from the republican and democrat parties. If I vote for the libertarian candidate, for example, I would just be taking away a vote that I would have placed toward the lesser-idiot, meaning the bigger idiot has a better chance of winning if I vote the way I'd like. Because I am put in this ridiculous democratic bind, I choose not to vote at all. If I don't actually have a say, what's the point? The "majority" is just going to prevail anyway. I don't know when people are going to realize that when they make decisions in large groups, it usually doesn't work out too well. WHat if EVERYONE agreed on things. What if you didn't have to follow a law unless you voted for it to be a law. What if you didn't have to pay fines that you didn't agree to be put in place? What if EVERYONE had to agree ?
Things would be a lot different. Of course, it would be too ridiculous to try and make everyone in the entire country agree on the same things. Which is why people should govern themselves in small communities; they could all easily agree on laws that they could follow. Then, if the federal government wants to keep their militaries and welfare and whatever else, that is a great service that the government could provide - they wouldn't have to concentrate on making laws and forcing a lot of different people with a lot of different beliefs to follow the same steps. The northwest is incredibly different from the southeast. This country is large, and we have a lot of different cultures, religions, and beliefs. If small communities governed themselves, they would most likely share religion and culture, which forms and shapes their beliefs and morals, so they would probably agree to follow the same laws. What's wrong to do in oregon can be completely different in Tennessee. People could travel in search of a community that shared their beliefs - or start new ones if they couldn't find like-minded communities. It could be so much better. But, alas, the catch: everyone would have to agree on it in a large group in order to disband what we've got going on now. And, as we've seen, the majority won't make the smartest decisions. They will never choose what is actually best for them. And even if if they did choose what was best for them, it wouldn't be what was best for the minority, ensuring that they always lose out. Assuming that everyone is the same and everyone should have to conform to one, large set of ideals is ridiculous, and our country should know better by now. Create value out of diversity, we need to allow for diversity if we're ever going to value it.
Also, I don't vote in the presidential election because I don't really care which heartless, bloated, over-sexed, pig-of-a man is majority picked (if you even believe that the shit ain't rigged anyway) to run this bloated, over-sexed, pig-of-a country.
I love America. I just want it to be better.