Chez Juice About to Get Very Chilly
Oh, crap. The gubernatorial race is really, really, really close. Sure, my vote didn't make that much of a difference...but what about the legions of Ugly Juice readers who voted for Hutchinson instead of Hatch based on my endorsement?
posted by Ugly Juice @ 9:14 PM
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11 Comments:
How many f'ed up elections will it take for the "let's come to some compromises and destroy the right-wing" school of voting to start?
People have short memories.
Baby are you taking the couch tonight, or is it my turn?
I think it's your turn until 2010.
jL, can I sleep over for four years starting tonight?
We can wait to see if Pawlenty is still running the state. CNN called Bauchman the winner in her seat. Minnesota has a few years of embarrasment ahead.
yes... you can take my couch.
but i must warn you, there's puke on half of it when i saw that pawlenty won.... then i puked all over the other half when i saw that bauchman won.
there is no such thing as stealing votes. people who voted for hutchinson did so because he was their first choice of candidate. i have no regrets!
i have regrets that i puked all over my couch.
No such thing? Like, it's not real?
This is real:
We don't live in a society where people get exactly what they want and get the candidate that is exactly like them. No one should live under that dillusion. We have to compromise to move in a general direction, and that compromise has to come from the two political parties that have held power nearly since the beginning of this nation. This will be the case until HOW we vote (irv for example) changes.
I am all for changing how we vote...systemic change will alter everything and I'd love if everyone got behind that change at a national level. It will ulimately let candiates that more closely represent people get elected (warts and all...from socialist to fascist.)
Until that change, we are in a melting pot of a two party system where we agree to disagree on smaller issues for the greater good.
This is reality that we live in. Anyone who doesn't accept this reality, especially after lesson after lesson in recent elections...are stubbornly idealist, selfish, or unable to learn nuance.
When Al Gore was running against George Bush, I had a lot of friends lavishly illustrate to me how their were no differences between these too men and the power infrastructure behind them. If they think that we dont live in a different world under Bush than we live under Gore...is there anything we can do other than chalk this up to billigerant ignorance?
There are huge differences in the two parties and a lot of their blunders are part of the incredible difficulty of having such a broad base. Those difficulties come from power..but it's power that's necessary to get them elected. A lot of what is wrong with them also protects us from radicalism and celebrity politicians. (Arnold and Jesse are nothing to the amount of celebrity/notorious representives we'll have under IRV)
People illustrating why they chose a fringe candidate and how that ultimately let the worst choice take power doesn't work when we know what side they're ultimatly on.
Blatently ignoring pleas for a coalition and voting for someone they know has no chance and allowing for no self sacrifice on the part of the greater good in the name of personal conviction doesnt fly with me personally.
amen.
Will you make me sleep on my own couch if I told you I voted straight Democrat (and wrote in "Santa Claus" when no Democrat was running?)
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