JDG wrote:
In a fair election, there are no losers. Sadly, it seems that hardly anyone is willing to look at it that way these days.
In a fair election, there are no losers?
Consider the case of a referendum.... we had three on the ballot here in Montgomery County, Maryland. One in particular was on term limits for the County Council. It was defeated. Very clearly, there was a winner and a loser.
You really don't get the meaning I intended? Although some candidates lose the race, although some measures are defeated, if the election is fair, *we* win -- all of us. It's when the politicians who won their races imagine that they won *ownership of the nation* that we're in trouble, because then we really have a group of "losers" who are treated as if they no longer share in ownership of the nation... or state, county, city, whatever.
Nick
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