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The Majority Is Always Wrong
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The Majority Is Always Wrong |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
The Majority Is Always Wrong There is a madness in the land: the Voting Day... and you’ve heard the standard lines used to shame you into making a fool of yourself along with the rest: Exercise your right to vote - they say solemnly - or lose your freedom of speech! If you don’t vote, you can’t complain - they say solemnly - and this, my favorite solemn pronouncement: It’s because of people who don’t vote that idiots run the government! Well, that’s like saying: it’s because of people who don’t drive we have traffic jams, accidents and air pollution. Yes, well, no wonder I think, equally solemnly, the majority is always wrong! What does it mean to ‘vote’? To exercise one’s freedom of choice? It means to be there when needed. It means to care. It means I desire to make the world into a better place. To not do this from fear, greed or competition, but rather out of love and compassion – Always a personal choice, never an institutionalized process; never an enforced concept. I vote everyday – do you? |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 Right on the mark, WW. We vote our consciences daily, in the way we live. |
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Robert E. Jordan Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Yo WindWalker, The majority is not always right, nor is it always wrong. It is however the majority. Bobby |
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