the slime spreads
Friday, 7 October 2005 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eWhy, given the problems they have caused elsewhere, would our Australian dip-shit of a prime minister want to bring in optional voting and electronic ballots? And why would the monstrous imbecile Beasley agree?
The only reasons I can think of stink of corruption. Optional voting has meant that booths are positioned in difficult places in poorer parts of town in order to discourage citizens from voting. Electronic voting makes it easy to conduct untraceable vote fraud on a scale that boggles the mind.
Howard seems hell-bent on destroying our country the way Bush has destroyed USA. I hope my friends in USA can pull their country back from the edge... but I doubt it. A few more years and they risk plummetting over into the abyss. Will we fall with them? I hope not.
Here is an amazingly clear and insightful piece by Al Gore on why the USA is so sick:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2IU703.html
(Thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sealwhiskers for the heads up.)
The only reasons I can think of stink of corruption. Optional voting has meant that booths are positioned in difficult places in poorer parts of town in order to discourage citizens from voting. Electronic voting makes it easy to conduct untraceable vote fraud on a scale that boggles the mind.
Howard seems hell-bent on destroying our country the way Bush has destroyed USA. I hope my friends in USA can pull their country back from the edge... but I doubt it. A few more years and they risk plummetting over into the abyss. Will we fall with them? I hope not.
Here is an amazingly clear and insightful piece by Al Gore on why the USA is so sick:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2IU703.html
(Thanks
sealwhiskers for the heads up.)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2005-10-07 02:03 am (UTC)First I've heard of that here, but I'm not surprised.
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Date: 2005-10-07 04:03 am (UTC)I believe they are making politics more and more irrelevant. At some point everybody will just turn off and stop litening to them. Not even the corporations will listen anymore because to associate with politicians would lose them their last vestige of legitimacy. And let's face it, the corporations don't have a lot of good reputation left to stand upon either. They and the politicians have squandered their good will and trust as if it was play-money.
So how will things get done? The same way they currently do, but without politicians... which is pretty-much how things are mostly done now. The only ones who really think politicians are important are politicians. Of course the robotics revolution will help enormously. We will have no need to top-down hierarchy. It will take a single generation (or less) for people to get used to it, just as with most major changes.