At 08:52 17-12-00 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>Its gonna be a great four years if Bush can get elected.
I don't understand this. The Supreme Court already decided that Bush has
won the election. I suppose this has something to do with your antiquated
system of electoral colleges, but is that procedure not merely a formality?
If an electoral college is made up of Republicans, I doubt they will
suddenly "see the light" and vote for Al Gore.
Not surprisingly, I doubt four years of Bush are "gonna be great", unless
you're among the white & rich. I foresee a shift to the right, attempts to
force Christian values down the throat of the nation, and a widening of the
gap between the rich and the poor (IOW: the poor will get poorer, the
already filthy rich will get even more filthy rich). Remind me in four
years to see how wealth is divided then, compared to now.
Life won't be easy for Bush, though. Thousands of votes were never counted,
which means there are a lot of people out there who will have lost their
faith in democracy. It will prove difficult to convince those people to
vote again in the next election. He will also be under pressure to find a
way to prevent "Florida" from happening again (hint: switch to electronic
voting, ditch the two-party system, and get rid of that outdated electoral
college thingy).
He will also face the task of restoring people's faith in the legal system.
After all, Bush won not because the people voted for him (Gore won the
popular vote), but because the Supreme Court decided he had won. Based on
democratic principles (the will of the people), they should have declared
Al Gore winner. However, the individual judges apparently based their
decision on which political party got them their job. IOW: they based their
decision on their own political views, not on the law. That *must* have
done a lot of damage to people's faith in the system.
Four years of Bush is not gonna be great, but it certainly will be
interesting to see Bush struggle.
Jeroen
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