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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Yes, why are we exercising our First Amendment rights in The Lounge?  What's up with that anyway?  :p
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CoS POLLitTics Sux sHiTt!!!!!!!!!

No seriously politics rule, and I mean this literally and it has a lot to do with Microsoft because the US government should have done something about them many years ago.


--- Quote from: Orethrius ---You're talking about idealism versus base concepts though.  Unfortunately, since we don't live in an ideal world, we have to rely on such measures to ensure the public's rights.  I assure you that the concept is not to vote for who might win, though, but to vote for who you want to win.  Too many people don't vote today because they're more concerned with the outcome than the process.  That's how Diebold sneaks in, that's how the Republicans grab power, and THAT'S why Orrin Hatch is chairing a subcommitee on a bastard-child philosophy.
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To be honest, I wouldn't like any of the party's in their current state to be in power. The Liberal Democrats aren't ready to run the country and neither are the Green Party, and you know what I think about the Labour and Conservative party. I'm voting for the one party that will do the most damage to the Conservatives and Labour, and who are the most likely to become a stronger opposition the coming years.


--- Quote ---As Captain Planet would say, "The power... is YOURS!"  Get off your duff and vote for who you want to see running the nation.  The only true losers are those who abstain.  ;)
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Oh yes I remmember Captin Planet, and unfortunately I can still remember the theme tune, and now I've got it going round in my head - thanks a bunch!

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---To be honest, I wouldn't like any of the party's in their current state to be in power. The Liberal Democrats aren't ready to run the country and neither are the Green Party, and you know what I think about the Labour and Conservative party. I'm voting for the one party that will do the most damage to the Conservatives and Labour, and who are the most likely to become a stronger opposition the coming years.
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As long as you're voting for who you want in office, as opposed to who might best damage the opposing party, that's your perogative.  Good on ya for not standing idly by, I say, but I just happen to believe in the conceptual integrity of the voting process.  Call me naive, but I believe in our founding fathers.  ;)

Calum:
either reason is a good reason for voting.

it's better than not voting at all and then moaning about how nothing gets done properly etc.

now:

--- Quote --- The Lib Dems have been in, not since WWII though!
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actually the liberal democrats have never been in power. The Liberal party were voted out of office in 1936 and did not merge with the social democratic party until the 1980s to become the Liberal Democratic Party.

also, in answer to sjor's question, who actually will win, it'll be labour, because the british public needs a lot worse than what labour has been to be convinced to elect howard after his association with several unpopular conservative concepts in the past. and not enough people will vote liberal democrat, because everybody thinks that not enough people will vote for them for them to get in, despite the fact that (i think) a majority thinks they should get a chance in office.

tony blair really annoys me conceptually, because he is a conservative prime minister leading the labour party. usually if you have a conservative prime minister, you can just vote labour in (as a nation), but with tony blair you can't do that, because he leads the labour party, and the only other choice is howard's (or whoever is conservative leader this week!) bunch of upper class goons.

sjor:

--- Quote ---The Liberal party were voted out of office in 1936 and did not merge with the social democratic party until the 1980s to become the Liberal Democratic Party.
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well uve done ur research!

as much as i dont like it, it'll probaly be labour.

KernelPanic:

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now:
actually the liberal democrats have never been in power. The Liberal party were voted out of office in 1936 and did not merge with the social democratic party until the 1980s to become the Liberal Democratic Party.

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