PSA: Voting

[GWestphal]

Its not just abortion or religion. Many, many voters have a "hot button" issue, be it abortion, religion, guns, the environment, whatever, and that's entirely what they base their vote on. It doesn't matter what the issue is...if you vote based on one issue, you're probably not voting very smart.

Very true, but abortion and religion are personal issues. Guns,environment etc are things that can effect other people. I can abide hot button issues as long as they don't involve a personal decision that has no potential to affect someone else.

 

[First]

so you not voting helps make sure that happens.

No no you're confused kid; mathematically his vote has 0% impact on the outcome. Get it yet or is crayon required?

 

[GWestphal]

Good answer. I've always been in favor of drafting political officials. The very act of them wanting to run for public office pretty much proves they're unfit for that office.

I would say a political draft would be equally bad. Stability is the name of the game. The problem is getting from one stable point to another requires instability.

I would propose a proportional democracy system, where seats are given based on party percentage, thus making the ideals the representative of the party and nominal sitters have no real power other than to press the button the party represents or face recall by the party.

That would hopefully remove the two party stalemate and force cooperation and compromise to pass legislation, while simultaneously making it really hard for bad legislation to pass. Lack of a single point of corruption for the lobbyists to target, helps take care of "buying" legislation.