14th August 2008, 10:55 AM
I'm against parties actually getting constitutional recognition, that reform is not what I'd consider a good idea.
However, you totally missed my point.
Yes, it's winner take all. I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that ALL the candidates "can win", they just need a majority. The "electability" of a candidate is a really stupid qualifier because instead of actually being honest, they strive for "expediancy", which is a concept I hate. To say "well really no one's going to vote for this person, because no one's going to vote for this person" is a self defeating circle of the worst sort.
Rather, I encourage people to vote for who they want to be president. To be concerned about the "meta-game" of considering "who has a chance" merely creates that same circle all over again, where you only vote for someone because you don't think others will vote for the one you really want, and others DO THE SAME THING, and it becomes self fulfilling!
Don't you see how utterly stupid it is to make such a self fulfilling prophecy as that?
In spite of "consequences" in the meta game, don't you think it's far more in the proper spirit of things to vote for who you want to be president?
However, you totally missed my point.
Yes, it's winner take all. I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that ALL the candidates "can win", they just need a majority. The "electability" of a candidate is a really stupid qualifier because instead of actually being honest, they strive for "expediancy", which is a concept I hate. To say "well really no one's going to vote for this person, because no one's going to vote for this person" is a self defeating circle of the worst sort.
Rather, I encourage people to vote for who they want to be president. To be concerned about the "meta-game" of considering "who has a chance" merely creates that same circle all over again, where you only vote for someone because you don't think others will vote for the one you really want, and others DO THE SAME THING, and it becomes self fulfilling!
Don't you see how utterly stupid it is to make such a self fulfilling prophecy as that?
In spite of "consequences" in the meta game, don't you think it's far more in the proper spirit of things to vote for who you want to be president?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)