But voting is spectacularly unlikely to make any real change, irrespective of the systembecause candidates have an incentive to be as vanilla as possible, and any radical suggestion will almost certainly be watered down to make it palatable to the majority.
Voting gives the impression of political activity; I'm not sure that it counts as much more, though.
(Voting gives the impression of political activity; I'm not sure that it counts as much more, though.
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:21,
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Hitler 1932, Attlee 1945, Thatcher 1979?They all made some pretty big changes
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:54,
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...Exceptional cases make for bad rules...
Hitler was hardly what we'd term a free and fair job, though. Atlee I'll grant you, although there the circumstances were exceptional. Thatcher, I think, was nowhere near as radical as her fanboys make out. All she did was paint in more stark terms the basic drift towards economic libertarianism that had marked the previous decades (and, arguably, most decades since the early 19th C).
(Hitler was hardly what we'd term a free and fair job, though. Atlee I'll grant you, although there the circumstances were exceptional. Thatcher, I think, was nowhere near as radical as her fanboys make out. All she did was paint in more stark terms the basic drift towards economic libertarianism that had marked the previous decades (and, arguably, most decades since the early 19th C).
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 13:46,
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