[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> > At 02:33 AM 11/8/2004 -0800, Samantha wrote:
> >> He squeaked by.  Unfortunately in this country it
> is winner (no matter
> >> by how slim a margin) take all.
> >
> > When you're voting for President, what method
> would you prefer? Surely 
> > not *loser* take all? (That was 2000, same guy,
> right?) Surely not 
> > rotating chairs during the period of office? Or
> abolishing the office 
> > entirely in favor of a committee?
> 
> I have no easy solution.  However pretending that GW
> Bush represents me 
> or nearly 50% of Americans who voted against him is
> abhorrent as hell.

"America is the worst democracy in the world, except
for all the other democracies in the world."  (For a
slightly incorrect/outdated definition that includes
republics.)

I.e., it does not seem like anyone else has yet
implemented a far better solution.