Monday, April 12, 2010

2nd American Revolution

With the creation of the Tea parties over the past year, I have seen lots of posters and talk of wanting a 2nd American revolution. This type of radical thinking worries me. I don't think any of these individuals have considered how many revolutions have resulted in a representative republic with individual rights that are protected by a constitution. A revolution will, in all probability, result in despotism and the slaughter of millions with surviors suffering horrible cruelties at the whims of those in power. I understand the need we have for political reform (term limits, campaign contributions, taxes, immigration, entitlement programs), but I see the use of violent revolution to be a much more worrisome spectre in our lives.

I believe a people who are subject to tyrants have the right and the duty to rebel by any means necessary to remove those tyrants. However, at this point, we are not there. We still have the power to vote these bastards (Republican and Democrate) out of office. While we have some voter fraud, for the most part, elections are still fair.

I am in favor of the Electoral College simply because it reduces the effects of voter fraud in one state to determining the outcome of an election.

1 comment:

  1. You've got things backwards.

    Under the current system, the national outcome can be affected by mischief in one of the closely divided battleground states (e.g., by overzealously or selectively purging voter rolls or by placing insufficient or defective voting equipment into the other party's precincts). The accidental use of the butterfly ballot by a Democratic election official in one county in Florida cost Gore an estimated 6,000 votes ― far more than the 537 popular votes that Gore needed to carry Florida and win the White House. However, even an accident involving 6,000 votes would have been a mere footnote if a nationwide count were used (where Gore's margin was 537,179). In the 7,645 statewide elections during the 26-year period from 1980 to 2006, the average change in the 23 statewide recounts was a mere 274 votes.

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