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How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth?
Attila Dimedici writes "Two thirds of the students at NYU would give up their right to vote in the next election for a full scholarship. Some would be satisfied with an ipod. A few would be willing to give up the right for the rest of their lives for one million dollars."
We have a saying in Poland:
Q: What's the height of insolence?
A: Vote for PiS and leave the country.
(PiS is a major party, extreme right-wing when it comes to religion, nationalism and authoritarism, strong left economically). And no wonders, there's a mass emigration going out of Poland...
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
He means that they were willing to give up their life to fight for the right to vote. And frankly if I had to fight to the death for the right to vote I wouldn't want people who didn't fight or really didn't care voting.. :)
I would give it all the the Ron Paul Campaign. He is the only one in the pack that deserves a vote.
It's not dying for your country that wins wars, it's making the other poor bastard die for _his_ country that wins wars. Or so Patton is supposed to have said.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Actually, the British colony of Canada in 1775 was barely 12 years old and was handed out to the British by the French who lost in a battle of war in 1763. The Loyalist who fled the USA to Canada were loyal to the crown and were, of course well treated by the leader of the British colony. Who needs a tight grip when you know your people are happy?
From Rational Choice Theory you can calculate how much a vote is worth for you (assuming that you are rational):
http://wikisum.com/w/Riker_and_Ordeshook:_A_theory_of_the_calculus_of_voting
You don't live in a proportional representation system in the UK, you live in a first-past-the-post system. The closest thing to a proportional representation system in the UK is at the EU level.
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Lots of people posting Ron Paul and getting modded down for redundancy.
This is just to spite those moderators, since none of those posts were modded UP as a correct answer to your query.
Ron Paul.
There is no constitutional right to vote in federal elections.
It depends on which ones you are talking about. Go read some of Thomas Jefferson's letters. He was a wealthy conservative christian...but he also spoke out a great deal about how religion is meaningless if morality and belief is enforced by government. He also had wonderful things to say like "The beauty of the 2nd ammendment is that you do not need it until the government tries to take it away".
People try to do this crap with the founding fathers about how "oh they were just rich elitists too". Well some of them surely were, the famous ones not so much. They were felons and revolutionaries and were well aware that if their little rebellion were to fail... "We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately". Fancy that...government officials that actually DID risk their lives... No they are most certainly not the same as the current crop of sniveling spineless greedy jingoistic wack jobs we have today.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
T.J. was a deist, if that. Please stop the mythmaking about our founders being Christians, it just fuels the wackaloons who want to turn America into a theocracy.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .