I agree. I didn't know that about France, but I can see that as being advantageous.
More specifically, I can see how detrimental it would be to have the 40%'er in office since I've actually seen the 40%'er in office :P By implication then, I know it can be better.
I do understand why the U.S. has a party system, it was to ensure that we had _at least_ two candidates to choose from. In theory, we could vote out the bad guy and get the better one. In practice, we just trade off one bad asshole for another bad asshole.
I think I'm one of the only people around here to grasp the concept of voting based on actually thinking about what I want rather than "Oh, I'm feeling republicanish today....".
I'll admit, I typically vote mostly Republican and Libertarian. I never made hte choice to vote a straight ticket, mind you. I didn't nkow what those words meant when I first started voting.
Since I didn't know what "republican" or "democrat" meant, I did the next best (which I now see is the first best) thing. I looked at the issues I had with society, I looked at hte candidates who I thought had the same ideas I did for fixing them, and I voted accordingly. Viola, I voted mostly libertarian and republican.
One in a while, I do vote for a democrat.
The way I see it, if 60% of my views are Republicanish, then I bare the label "Republican" despite the fact that almost half of my views are then, by implication, not Republican (we'll say they're Democratianish).
Let's say another person also has 60% of their views in line with Republican views. Potentially, only 20% of our views may actually overlap. That means I disagree entirely with that person even though we're both in the same party! And if there's another Demcorat who only shares 60% of their views with the Democrat party, it's possible that 80% of our views overlap!
So, there we have it, a mathematical model of how a Republican may feel better served by a Democrat candidate than the Republican candidate, and shows exactly why those single word things can't possibly represent an entire political belief system.
We should just have "The Party".... We'd have to call it something else though, the Soviets kind of ruined that particular term :)
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Date: 2010-09-28 07:06 am (UTC)More specifically, I can see how detrimental it would be to have the 40%'er in office since I've actually seen the 40%'er in office :P By implication then, I know it can be better.
I do understand why the U.S. has a party system, it was to ensure that we had _at least_ two candidates to choose from. In theory, we could vote out the bad guy and get the better one. In practice, we just trade off one bad asshole for another bad asshole.
I think I'm one of the only people around here to grasp the concept of voting based on actually thinking about what I want rather than "Oh, I'm feeling republicanish today....".
I'll admit, I typically vote mostly Republican and Libertarian. I never made hte choice to vote a straight ticket, mind you. I didn't nkow what those words meant when I first started voting.
Since I didn't know what "republican" or "democrat" meant, I did the next best (which I now see is the first best) thing. I looked at the issues I had with society, I looked at hte candidates who I thought had the same ideas I did for fixing them, and I voted accordingly. Viola, I voted mostly libertarian and republican.
One in a while, I do vote for a democrat.
The way I see it, if 60% of my views are Republicanish, then I bare the label "Republican" despite the fact that almost half of my views are then, by implication, not Republican (we'll say they're Democratianish).
Let's say another person also has 60% of their views in line with Republican views. Potentially, only 20% of our views may actually overlap. That means I disagree entirely with that person even though we're both in the same party! And if there's another Demcorat who only shares 60% of their views with the Democrat party, it's possible that 80% of our views overlap!
So, there we have it, a mathematical model of how a Republican may feel better served by a Democrat candidate than the Republican candidate, and shows exactly why those single word things can't possibly represent an entire political belief system.
We should just have "The Party".... We'd have to call it something else though, the Soviets kind of ruined that particular term :)