Reply With Quotecompulsory voting doesn't solve the problem of voter apathy.Originally Posted by gribbler
The people are too apathetic to exercise their power. Maybe voting should be made compulsory.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ises/obameter/
Promises kept by Obama: 179
Promises broken: 68
"South Africa is a shithole. It used to be a decent place." -Ben Kenobi, sharing his wisdom on world history
compulsory voting doesn't solve the problem of voter apathy.The people are too apathetic to exercise their power. Maybe voting should be made compulsory.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
It's both, of course. Do you like having a democratic system or not? Because, the point is, that you seem to want to throw the baby out with the bath water. And it's not going to happen anyway. Americans (people) are never going to say, "it turns out we're too stupid after all, so please make all out decisions for us" despite the fact that that's the way they basically do it anyway.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
History teaches us that, when our economy is in terrible shape after protracted war--especially when we're worried about inflation--we ought to trust an Austrian to solve all our problems for us.
This belongs to an historical Top 10.
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
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