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Originally Posted by Missileer A popular vote is no better than anarchy. That was not the way the founders meant for things to be decided, by mob rule. That simply encourages buying votes with promises that can't possibly be fulfilled. If a politician promises everything for nothing, then the ones who vote for him/her become a bloc who are ignorant to the facts of life that success is not won through sloth and procreation at the expense of taxpayers. It has never worked and never will. |
True. I made a mistake here, I said popular vote went I meant to say parliamentary system -as opposed to the electoral collage. We should adapt the systems found in Canada and Europe, they seem to be more accurate, fair and harder to cheat.
Take the 2000 election as an example. Gore beat Bush by over 500,000 votes (1/2 a Million people) and we STILL got Bush. Any system that allows that to happen is a flawed system.