MrMacphisto
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Isn't it great when a president that has over $200 million in his campaign for re-election still gets sympathy from the common man or woman? I find it rather amusing that this corporate puppet has any support from the average citizen, but alas, the uninformed are great in number.
The electoral college is indeed a crock of utter shit. Sure, it was great as a bait for smaller states to join the union, but keeping such a stupid system around is basically making the statement that each Wyoming citizen is proportionately worth more than each New Yorker. Of course, when you combine this obvious fallacy with how a presidential candidate gets an entire state's electoral votes when he gets only at least 51% of its votes, any observant individuals will note that America is neither a democracy nor a republic. The plutocratic state of affairs in the U.S. become more apparent when you think about how much each candidate is bought by special interests and how the media is being bought by malevolent bastards like Rupert Murdoch.
By the way, Red Indian, America definitely has its share of intellectual poseurs, but I would guess that a country that still has a figurehead monarchy and enough old money families to put someone like Margaret Thatcher in power has more than a few intelligentsia wannabes as well....
One last thing though... The fact that Tony Blair has to face a bunch of angry old wankers every night is not only impressive, but damn amusing! Parliament is about the only entertaining programming that C-Span offers, and boy is it....
The electoral college is indeed a crock of utter shit. Sure, it was great as a bait for smaller states to join the union, but keeping such a stupid system around is basically making the statement that each Wyoming citizen is proportionately worth more than each New Yorker. Of course, when you combine this obvious fallacy with how a presidential candidate gets an entire state's electoral votes when he gets only at least 51% of its votes, any observant individuals will note that America is neither a democracy nor a republic. The plutocratic state of affairs in the U.S. become more apparent when you think about how much each candidate is bought by special interests and how the media is being bought by malevolent bastards like Rupert Murdoch.
By the way, Red Indian, America definitely has its share of intellectual poseurs, but I would guess that a country that still has a figurehead monarchy and enough old money families to put someone like Margaret Thatcher in power has more than a few intelligentsia wannabes as well....
One last thing though... The fact that Tony Blair has to face a bunch of angry old wankers every night is not only impressive, but damn amusing! Parliament is about the only entertaining programming that C-Span offers, and boy is it....