More people murdered in Chicago than all of Canada last year

[Ned]

Originally posted by Geronimo
How is there any kind of local democracy in a place when the tilt reaches such a degree that only one party can ever win under any conceivable circumstances?

And it gets better. Once upon a time, Al Capone controlled Chicago. He had everyone on his payroll.

In those days, the only people got killed were rival gangs. (Almost true.)

[Ming]

Plus, there is still tons of local democracy even with one party totally in control. The real election is the primary... where you can choose between all the members of the party that are running. A bunch of the Dems in Chicago vote like Repubs, they just are members of the other party so that they can get elected

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Ming
Plus, there is still tons of local democracy even with one party totally in control. The real election is the primary... where you can choose between all the members of the party that are running. A bunch of the Dems in Chicago vote like Repubs, they just are members of the other party so that they can get elected

This makes sense to me. I wonder if Communist China could be convinced to replace their current legally mandated one party system with an informal one party system of this sort.

[Ned]

Commies only allow democracy to a point, and it is not too high.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Ned
Commies only allow democracy to a point, and it is not too high.

Real commies sure, but I'll bet if china could learn to be more like our polytubbie commies they could build an informal one party system and have democratic primaries!