Re: Democracy in America Re: Villain of the Week

[Yanni Cooper]

"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> 
> At 01:21 AM 12/2/00 -0500, Yanni wrote:
> >Actually Darryl, we are a democracy in name only. We've got the whole
> >electoral college crap, remember? And it's not much of a democracy when
> >you only ever have 2 choices. It may be <i>called</i> a democracy, but
> >is it really?
> 
> But there were far more than 2 candidates!   By my count: Bush, Gore,
> McCain, Bradley, Forbes all had very realistic shots.   You could also toss
> in people like Buchanan, Nader, Kasich, L. Dole, etc. who were certainly
> *serious* about running, but did not have broad-based support.
Bull honkey. There may be 3rd parties, but there are only ever 2
candidates, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. And McCain,
Bradley and Forbes didn't have a snowballs chance in heck of winning.
Your faith in the sham america calls a democratic system amuses me
immensely.
-- 
I cannot count them in a box        I cannot count them with a fox 
I cannot count them by computer     I will not with a Roto-Rooter 
I cannot count them card-by-card    I will not 'cause it's way too hard 
I cannot count them on my fingers   I will not while suspicion lingers. 
I'll leave the country in a jam     I can't count ballots, Sam-I-Am.