2008-07-22, 03:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 2008-07-22, 04:13 AM by explodingbbq.)
1. It's hardly a false dichotomy. Our system is not set up well to handle more than two parties. Move to a country with a parliamentary system if you want a bajillion parties. And you yourself admit that it is very unlikely that a third-party candidate will be elected president. It therefore seems better to vote for the candidate who you like more/dislike less, depending on your disposition.
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This is a bit confusing. I don't actually know the platforms of the two parties, but in general I feel like libertarians and greens wouldn't get along that well.
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So uh...I realize that you did use a hypothetical there, but Americans were decidedly *not* vehemently opposed. There are dozens of articles online with poll data. Here are some of them if you are interested: 2002/before invasion, 2003/After the invasion started, and finally the wikipedia article lol.
I probably had some other problems, but I'm lazy now.
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Schrodinger Wrote:We allow our country to go into recession.This is ridiculous. Tweaking policies has very little predictable effect on the economy. Blaming the person in charge is stupid because it has almost nothing to do with him. Granted if you did something ridiculously stupid like nationalizing everything the economy would almost certainly go down the tubes, but the things politicians do to try to make things better very rarely do anything at all. Alternately: business cycle.
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Schrodinger Wrote:I'm looking for a candidate who can cause torrents, floods, and who can change the dynamic of the jagged path we are walking as a country.Actually you're probably not. The things that are going wrong for us right now are actually pretty minor in comparison to the things that are going right for us. You just don't realize it because good news doesn't sell papers. I've been righteously angered on quite a number of occasions by the things our government does, but we're still doing a lot better than most of the rest of the world.
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Schrodinger Wrote:Personally, I'm vacillating in my decision to either choose Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party who has a previous history of being a former congressman and also a U.S. attorney for Georgia or Jesse Johnson who is the candidate for the Green Party.
This is a bit confusing. I don't actually know the platforms of the two parties, but in general I feel like libertarians and greens wouldn't get along that well.
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Schrodinger Wrote:It is OKAY if our President declares war and totally ignores the opinion of the populace even if they might be vehemently opposed.
So uh...I realize that you did use a hypothetical there, but Americans were decidedly *not* vehemently opposed. There are dozens of articles online with poll data. Here are some of them if you are interested: 2002/before invasion, 2003/After the invasion started, and finally the wikipedia article lol.
I probably had some other problems, but I'm lazy now.