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Date Posted: 09:47:19 07/13/04 Tue
Author: mvd
Subject: Re: Third party candidates.
In reply to: Omega 's message, "Third party candidates." on 05:54:46 07/13/04 Tue

I must agree with you, Omega. The voting process does create the illusion of social change.

My father and I were arguing the other day about just this issue. He was arguing very vehemently for the Conservative right. I asked him how he could feel so strongly about subjects which he knows so little about. I challenged him to recall even the minutest local event that was voted on--- outside of voting for candidates--- so that he might prove to me that he was an informed voter. He could not do it. I feel that this is the case with 99% of the populous. We are clueless as to the governmental process and how it works even when it is doing so in our own back yards. We go to the voting booth, having very little clue as to who or what we are voting for and what these people intend and will do when they take office. Voting gives us the illusion that we are acting in a dutiful and meaningful way, but what did Joe Politician do for you the last time he was in office? Outside of taxes, education and some vague moral sensibility, what does he stand for? What did he achieve? What did he vote for when in office? If you can say, you are in the extreme minority.

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