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This is pretty much my reason for voting: "2. Perhaps we vote in the same spirit in which we buy lottery tickets. After all, your chances of winning a lottery
by Prrometheus 18y ago
This is pretty much my reason for voting:
"2. Perhaps we vote in the same spirit in which we buy lottery tickets. After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy."
I fantasize that my vote for Bob Barr will throw the election into a tie, creating a giant entertaining mess even bigger than the aftermath of the 2000 election. Also, I will get some warm fuzzies over the next 4 years knowing that I didn't vote for the winner when they inevitably screw up. Lastly, I am a contrarian by nature. I will enjoy being the only one of my friends that did not vote for Barack Obama, much as I enjoy being the only one who does not pray in a church.
- eru 18y agoI always appreciate a contrarian mind. By the way: Are there any Republicans on the internet left? If you follow the media (especially here in Europe) the Democrats should have taken landslide victories for the last eight years.
- Prrometheus 18y agoThere are. There was a lot of Republican activity on the internet during the primaries. However, young Republicans and proprietors of prominent Republican websites were never big McCain fans. And of course, Obama is a pop star. So, Republicans have been silent on the internet of late. Over the last eight years, many people have soured on the Republican Party because of Bush. Most young Republicans I know despise him. There won't be a lot of energy behind Republican Party candidates again until its leaders support the small-government principles that excite young activists.
- aswanson 18y agoMost young Republicans I know despise him. Was it after a few catastrophic war/spending decisions, or did they always think he was a bad choice? For the life of me I can't see how the party propped him up over McCain back in 2000. In my eyes, even back then, he was such an obvious cipher.
- Prrometheus 18y agoDefinitely post-war and post-Medicare part D.
- dangoldin 18y agoI feel that the Republican party needs to go back to it's Buckley roots. Seems the modern Republican party is just sliding into an abyss.
- eru 18y agoIs there any indication that a new party will take the GOP's place in the two-party system?
- dangoldin 18y agoI don't know enough to answer that but intuitively it seems that as long as the two parties alternate presidents and tend to get a similar number of the popular vote there isn't much incentive to change. I'm not sure if a change would be drastic, it would probably just be a gradual move to capture new voters without alienating old ones.
- maximilian 18y agoI'm curious as to why many young republicans don't jive with McCain. I feel like he's been replaced by bizarro McCain (most of the time), but nonetheless he seems like a pretty classic conservative (at least before this year).
- nazgulnarsil 18y agowe might be on the verge of another party renaming that has occurred at various times in american history. the old conservative party slowly dies and the liberal party bifurcates into two new parties, one more conservative and one more extremely liberal.
- dhimes 18y agoBob Barr??!!?? (barf.....)
- dgordon 18y agoI'll probably hold my nose and give him a protest vote, considering he's not quite as bad as the Socialist Party, the Fascist Party, and the "The Constitution Authorizes a Theocracy" Party. Besides, my vote doesn't matter.
- dhimes 18y agouh, yeah, he's a member of the CCC (or was, before they were outed). KKK reborn (but non-violent). I try to stay out of political discussions here, but he's a very bad man. Casting a protest vote for him is like casting one for that old jerk from W. VA (can't recall his name, former Imperial Wizard for the Klan that supports the "remote viewing" funding of the CIA--he's a Dem). Pick someone else for your protest vote, please.
- dgordon 18y agoScrew it, maybe I'll just write in Ron Paul, even though write-in votes allegedly aren't counted. As I said, my vote doesn't matter anyway.
- Prrometheus 18y agoHe's the least crazy candidate that doesn't have grand schemes to reshape the world from Washington DC.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoBob Barr supported the Patriot Act. A libertarian supporting the patriot act is like a chicken supporting KFC. oh, but he "regrets" voting for it. Idiot. http://www.reason.com/news/show/28960.html http://www.reason.com/news/show/28960.html