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Or maybe just a light annoying whine. We'll have to see. :P
I don't really write down my thoughts much on the state of the political happenings. Mostly because I don't really like to all that often, although I do enjoy discussing it occasionally with others around me. That being said, I've been thinking about the whole electoral college thing that people seem to harp on, ever since the last election really. All I seem to hear is how we need to "fix" it or something, and that's really just crap.
Our founding fathers were not retards (or whoever ended up creating it), they did know a thing about how they wanted things to work, and the electoral college was made specifically to do what it does. They fully intended for all states to have a fair share of the election. They wanted small population states to have just as big a say. I think it's rather ridiculous to say it's broken, when it's working the way it always has, and yes, some people end up with a president they may not like, but it happens. Colorado here is actually planning on voting to split the electoral votes, meaning we get to vote on it at the same time, and it will work instantly if passed. I think it's a huge load of crap. In our case, we would end up splitting all but one vote, meaning that our state would become absolutely worthless. One vote we'd get to the winner, and that's just not right. Even tiny states get like a minimum of two or three.
There's something my teacher, a very smart man, albeit with a rather thick Polish accent, has said repeatedly. We get the president we deserve. I find it funny and probably quite true. I'm waiting to see which one we deserve to get.
As for the whole third party voting thing, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maveness talked about earlier today, I've always thought it could be a good idea to have a third party be as powerful as the other too, although I'm not sure that'll ever actually happen. I can't recall any other government out there that has a viable three+ party system, at least, not one that doesn't end up really going back down to two in real power. I don't believe third party votes are thrown away, but I don't think they really do much. There has to be a significant number of people for a third party candidate's votes to matter, and add to that they all have to be for the same third party. I really don't see that happening, especially not in this election.
It's become too polarized, and mostly around Bush, either hating him or loving him, and not much room in between. I personally don't hate him and think he's done a pretty good job. I've been reading Orson Scott Card on a regular basis, and he is an absolute font of information on such things. I'm almost tempted to go out and find the book he recommended in his latest article, but I'm too busy at the moment. But the man has definitely some very interesting things to say. Like today I learned that in 1996, Clinton was ecstatic about the jobless rate being at 6.2%, which he said was really low. Currently, under Bush it is at an even lower 5.4%, and yet he is being treated like the country is going into ruin. VEry interesting to be sure.
I don't really write down my thoughts much on the state of the political happenings. Mostly because I don't really like to all that often, although I do enjoy discussing it occasionally with others around me. That being said, I've been thinking about the whole electoral college thing that people seem to harp on, ever since the last election really. All I seem to hear is how we need to "fix" it or something, and that's really just crap.
Our founding fathers were not retards (or whoever ended up creating it), they did know a thing about how they wanted things to work, and the electoral college was made specifically to do what it does. They fully intended for all states to have a fair share of the election. They wanted small population states to have just as big a say. I think it's rather ridiculous to say it's broken, when it's working the way it always has, and yes, some people end up with a president they may not like, but it happens. Colorado here is actually planning on voting to split the electoral votes, meaning we get to vote on it at the same time, and it will work instantly if passed. I think it's a huge load of crap. In our case, we would end up splitting all but one vote, meaning that our state would become absolutely worthless. One vote we'd get to the winner, and that's just not right. Even tiny states get like a minimum of two or three.
There's something my teacher, a very smart man, albeit with a rather thick Polish accent, has said repeatedly. We get the president we deserve. I find it funny and probably quite true. I'm waiting to see which one we deserve to get.
As for the whole third party voting thing, like
maveness talked about earlier today, I've always thought it could be a good idea to have a third party be as powerful as the other too, although I'm not sure that'll ever actually happen. I can't recall any other government out there that has a viable three+ party system, at least, not one that doesn't end up really going back down to two in real power. I don't believe third party votes are thrown away, but I don't think they really do much. There has to be a significant number of people for a third party candidate's votes to matter, and add to that they all have to be for the same third party. I really don't see that happening, especially not in this election. It's become too polarized, and mostly around Bush, either hating him or loving him, and not much room in between. I personally don't hate him and think he's done a pretty good job. I've been reading Orson Scott Card on a regular basis, and he is an absolute font of information on such things. I'm almost tempted to go out and find the book he recommended in his latest article, but I'm too busy at the moment. But the man has definitely some very interesting things to say. Like today I learned that in 1996, Clinton was ecstatic about the jobless rate being at 6.2%, which he said was really low. Currently, under Bush it is at an even lower 5.4%, and yet he is being treated like the country is going into ruin. VEry interesting to be sure.
