What's the Alternative? (Attn: Travis)

Travis · 01-20-2004, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

no offense to travis, but I seriously doubt I would vote for him in a primary

Good.

There's no sense in wasting your vote since no one under 35 can be president.

**+Donny** · 01-21-2004, 12:09 PM

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Not perfect, but moreso than is Bush.

Why? How close must they be? Or is it a personal thing?
I'm confused as to whether you are saying voting for the "lesser of two evils" is sinful or not. Technically, we do this every election, unless one of the candidates agrees with everything we say, for we must way how their disagree and agree with us and see which is closet or will do best. In doing so, we must weigh which is lesser in terms of disagreeing with us (or, the less "evil").

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Then they won't vote for it.

I know, so why vote for a losing party?

JakeW · 01-22-2004, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by +Donny

I know, so why vote for a losing party?

If I may be so bold as to answer a question that was not posed to me.....

I think voting for an independant party that's not going to win may easily be the best use of your vote. Currently we are under a national 2 party system (2 parties is laughable just about anywhere else in the world, theres like 30 in Italy yadda yadda) This leads to people backing political parties that they don't like because the ONLY other choice seems worse.

For instance, no matter who ran against Clinton, I was voting for them. Pretty much no matter what. Quite a few people vote like this, not for who they want, but against who they don't want.

Sadly though, our system is set up to maintain itself as two party. Specifically, the two prime parties have matched governmental funding. That is the Gov't actually matches there spending! (If anyone knows tons about this please feel free to elaborate) In order to get matched funding for a third party, that party has to get more than (I believe) 5% of the popular vote.

That being said, the only way to make our political choices wider, and therefore of higher quality, we need to try and get some third party up to 5%.

If you are a republican for instance, and you live in Texas..... vote for a third party! Bush will win Teas after, so no harm done there, and maybe, just maybe, we can help a third party break into our system....

That's why I vote for losers anyway....

Jake

CallingTheKtulu · 01-22-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Billy Shears

to paraphrase a friend of mine: When you choose the lesser of two evils, you all ways get evil and you're going to end up with less.

So according to most on these boards, i should vote democrat, so is till get eveil, yet i get more? as in better? as in more for my vote? or did you mean less evil? granted, i'm voting dem. anyways...

Travis · 01-22-2004, 09:43 PM

The Democrats are not the lesser of the two evils. Supporting the slaughter of babies in the womb is not an acceptable option.

CallingTheKtulu · 01-22-2004, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Travis

The Democrats are not the lesser of the two evils. Supporting the slaughter of babies in the womb is not an acceptable option.

HA! HA! HA! oh, that makes me laugh. considering pro-choice is not advocating abortion, its just not making it illegal... which is really pointless anyways, cause it'll still happen, just in alleyways and bathrooms. i dunno, maybe i'm just wanting women who do decide to go through with this procedure to be safe while doing it. but thats just me... i dont know of a single democrat who actually SUPPORTS abortion by any means... they just dont want women to have to go to an alleyway to have it done is all... Banning abortion was tried before, and it decreased the amount of reported abortions happening by about .1 million, that was down from 2.3 million... to 2.2 million, wow, you know, it really seems like it worked! lets do it again! *notice heavy sarcasm*

Travis · 01-22-2004, 10:20 PM

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