Sunday, November 04, 2012
Laughingstock of the world
Britain and Australia have given us a good hard look at our suicidal bizarre insane wacked-out electoral system.
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Australia:
The 'expert' has a couple of details wrong, but his description of the system as primitive is spot on.
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Britain:
BBC explains how a tie could give us a President Romney and VP Biden for the next four years.
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Consummation devoutly to be wished. It's the only way our two fucking "parties" could ever be persuaded to give up the primitive Electoral College. You'd think 2000 would have been persuasive, but it wasn't. The "party" operatives love the EC because it gives them infinite leverage over the process. Without the EC, the whole nation would vote, forcing "parties" to campaign on broad questions that interest the whole nation. With the EC, only a few hundred people in Florida actually vote, and the operatives can put the whole country in debt forever to bribe those few actual voters. Just like a leveraged hostile takeover. In 2000 the R-team operatives happened to win the bet, but the D-team understood that they could have won just as easily by playing a few cards differently.
Neither of Goldman's two "brands" could handle a real national election. That would require them to manufacture a real product, to present opposing arguments and competent candidates. It would force them to compete on quality. Unthinkable! Betting is so much more fun!
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