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Got Choice?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 by admiralI hope that you had time to vote for Girdy/Herman today. Joel should start the official campaign as soon as the primaries are over. He may wait until the day before the election, but that is how he wins elections. In the last election cycle, I got Girdy elected to almost every office in the land. That is not bad for a stand up philosopher.
At the polls, have you noticed how thin your choices are getting? The longer the election cycle goes, the fewer choices there are on the ballot. That will not mean much to you since you are writing in Girdy’s name; however, I was wondering if you have noticed. By the last primary election, you will have the option of going to the polls to select the candidate left on the ballot. I still wonder how that is for the good of any party.
To me, that is like saying that you have to have the guy who gets drunk and puts on the lamp shade in order to have a good party. I look silly in a lamp shade. That is not to say that I look less than silly in anything else. What good is an election in which there is only one candidate left on the ballot? Then we are told that not voting for that establishment candidate is sacrificing the election to the other side.
I am tempted to tell such party insiders that I did not vote for the party candidate because I did not want the candidate to win. Girdy openly hates the electorate and is honest enough to admit it. You know what you are getting when you go to the polls and write in his name. Other politicians are not so honest in their delusions of grandeur. Would you rather have the honest tyrant or the dishonest tyrant in office this time?
The electoral college exists because some states would have no voice in government without it. A popular vote election could be won with little more than 10% of the states. Does spreading out the primary system until all but one candidate on each side of the party drops out do any less to leave states out of the process? Remember to write Girdy’s name in when you go out to vote. Otherwise, you have no choice in who will rule over you with an iron fist.
