Announcing Obama’s Election as the new US President
I know, I know, — the actual election day is next week — but Obama will win, all rational people know that. Why do we know that? Because the polls say so, and this close to the election, the polls haven’t been wrong in the past several decades. Don’t give me that telephone polls from the 1930s shit … pollers are much more sophisticated today. Obama wins, mark my word. Damn pollers have taken all the anticipation out of the election process.
So SHOULD Obama win? Well, given the Obama-McCain choice I guess so, but it is a sad situation where our choice comes down to Tweedledee or Tweedledum. Oh yeah, that has been our only options for the past four or five decades. Maybe before … I wasn’t there. The system is rigged. Representative democracy requires candidates who are willing to put themselves in compromising situations.
We would be better off electing a King or Queen, and giving them no power, then let an elected panel of specialists actually run the country. And with modern technology, representative democracy is obsolete — there is no reason we can’t have direct democratic elections for each of the 100 super-bureaucrats who will run things.
And voters should be qualified. If you can’t match the candidate to the main elements of his platform in a mutl-choice test, your vote does not count. Of course we don’t actually tell people which votes counted, so the idjets don’t get all up in arms about it.