cuddlefish | (no subject)

I DON'T WANNA MOVE TO JAPAN WAAAAAAAH *bursts into tears* And I don't want to be a grownup about this either. At least if being a grownup means sighing, not crying, and making a few more Bush jokes.

On a side note, I was thinking, why did they make the electoral votes thing up, anyway? Is it because normal votes were too hard to count? (And to get a clear winner, I guess...) Because if that's the problem, what ABOUT technology? We do have enough computers nowadays to count the votes all together and get percentages. We don't really need states to represent our votes anymore, do we? No, okay, I know somebody out there's already made that argument. The important part is this fantasy I'm having of George Washington or some faceless important ancient politician (think faces on coins and bills) somehow having it explained to him that by the power of our amazing technology, we can vote in a way you couldn't three hundred years ago. He gets all outraged that we aren't LEAPING at the chance to do things the new, accurate way, grabs Bush by the collar and goes "GET OUT OF THAT OFFICE!!!" Oh, and he's TOTALLY taller than Bush in my head (even though he probably wasn't. Whoever this guy is. People back then were shorter. Mutter mutter).

I'm so embarrassed...I'm hallucinating...=_=

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

you're.. moving to Japan?

and, the voting thing.. I think it has something to do with slavery and how they should only get so much of a vote.. or.. something. Basically, America's in like version win3.0, and it should be up to XP by now..

XP looks like a kind of upset emoticon...CONSPIRACY OMG.

Oh, and I'm not really moving to Japan. I think. I don't want to because it's too hard, and they're pretty messed up, too, and it's not really making anything better. (I have to stay here to vote for the next democrat.)

Unfortunately, the electoral college was there from the start. It was designed so that the "right" people, that is, propertied white males educated in the same tradition, would be able to have greater control over the election results. Because they didn't trust the people at large, not even the small percentage who was allowed to vote at the time. At the beginning, technically, the popular vote was only a recommendation; it was the electoral college who decided whether to take it or not. I'm fairly sure that rule has been changed by now, but that was the idea.

Hm. Well, it doesn't have to be George Washington. (He's just the easiest because he's on the dollar bill and the quarter.) I want someone better.

Actually, the electoral votes were put in place by the government way back when it first started, because they believed the common folk weren't intelligent enough to truly decide the best candidate and were swayed by promises of free hay or something, so there's the popular vote that tells the electoral people which candidate to cast their votes for, but they can change their minds and not vote for what the popular vote said. Chances of that are slim to none, though.

Does it make sense? No, not a bit. But that's how it used to be, and we just hate changing old rules around here.

FREE HAY!? Σ(ﾟДﾟ　)

There are a few times when the electoral college representatives did not vote for the popular candidate or did not vote at all. Mostly it's been done in protest. In one of the most recent elections, I forget which, one of the representatives obstained from voting in Washington DC to protest the fact that DC does not have representation in Congress. Maine is an exception and their electors vote in proportion to the popular vote, which I think should be applied everywhere.

Heh...

Random trivia! Maine used to be a part of Massachusetts!

I wouldn't want to move to Japan either...o.O;;

...But I'm thinking I should probably move to Canada or England or Australia for the next four years.

Those are all easier than Japan. Canada's cheapest, but I like England better. Australia has too many creepy crawlies for me (spiders, jellyfish, snakes, Kithal).

:nods:

But... it's warmer here! Lot easier to live without relying on technology :D

At least you don't have strange military fetish fantasies ... Unlike me ; O; +~~weeps~~ ... not really xD+

I'm kind of fascinated with Russia, although living there would probably be hell for someone like me oo;
When I'm older, I'll probably move to either the Swiss, Austria, Luxemburg or the Netherlands. That's the cool thing about Europe: you can live, work and go whereever you want and for as long as you want ... ;_;<3