[ExI] Who has a vote that counts?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 08:39:25 UTC 2020


It matters to the degree - to the amount of the government that may be
willing to stand up to Trump and make it a short crisis.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:00 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> John, if we will have Trump constitutional crisis regardless of the way we
> vote, does our vote actually matter?
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Jul 29, 2020, at 5:54 PM, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> I believe what you meant to point out is that Nebraska has an officially
> nonpartisan legislature. (Yeah, it’s unicameral, but that only means it has
> one chamber — not that it has one or no parties.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>    Sample my Kindle books at:
>
> http://author.to/DanUst
>
> On Jul 29, 2020, at 3:31 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Extremely interesting.  Where do you know of a one party system outside of
> a communist country that works better than a two party one?  We have one
> unicameral legislature, Nebraska I think.  I don't know how well that works.
>
> Anyway, glad to hear from Down Under.  Let us hear more from you!  I am
> very glad to hear that you are a Green.  Perhaps what we need is a third
> party:  Green.   bill w
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM Nuala Thomson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> In Australia I tend to vote Greens, which will never run parliament/make
>> Prime Minister due to its lack of members, but because I live in a regional
>> town. We have the Great Barrier Reef to the east, the protected Daintree
>> Rainforest north, and rainforest everywhere else around us, and the local
>> council does not give any fucks about the endangered wildlife that live in
>> our areas. So I vote Greens purely so there is some fight in councils and
>> parliament against doing anything that is going to drive our endangered
>> animals towards extinction. Without them, our politicians would go
>> unchecked and everything would die or be destroyed.
>> *Greens being our hippies that became politicians.
>> Your Democrat/Republican parties would be closest related to our
>> Labour/Liberal parties.
>> 2 party systems suck.
>>
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