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> Neither major US political party seems to do better than 50/50 overall I'm not sure what that even means or how you could measure it. Most political polici
by shasta 16y ago
> Neither major US political party seems to do better than 50/50 overall
I'm not sure what that even means or how you could measure it. Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. There are not often going to be actions that make everything peachy. Usually choices have pros and cons, and it's easier to get the public to notice the cons than it is to get them to evaluate the trade offs involved. Also, if the cons don't materialize within two years, the public will probably not connect the dots.
So watch some cable news, form your half-ass opinion and go vote.
- lotharbot 16y ago> Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. No -- but occasionally politicians will state a particular tangible, directly measureable result they're expecting a policy to produce (either pro or con). They seem to be wrong as often as they're right, across the board. Ideally, we'd have a policy suggestion, true experts would give us a clear understanding of the tradeoffs involved and the actual effects of the policy, and we could evaluate them and make sensible decisions. What we actually get are policy suggestions, statements from both sides' hand-picked "experts" declaring fictional effects of the policy, we vote for whatever sounds the best to us, and half the time the end result is totally different from what we thought we were voting for. And pretty much all the time, both sides cherry-pick statistics that don't really measure what they say they're measuring in order to prove that they were right all along. And then we wonder why people are skeptical...