JDG wrote:
I must have missed the part where the 2004 election wasn't fair.... or are you buying into David Brin's Area-51 conspiracy theories as well?
I haven't offered an opinion about whether not the 2004 election was fair. I wrote that in a fair election, there are no "losers." I was hoping to imply that I stand behind these words only if the election was fair; otherwise, they are irrelevant.
What I see is a minority that is apparently unwilling to concede defeat in the last election, and recognize that some policies of the majority will be enacted - and that indeed they should be enacted, by virtue of having participated in the winning coalition.
Are you saying that about half the nation's people are now obligated to act as though the other half won *ownership* of the nation?
Do you view the election as an attack and conquest or a conversation and decision? I'm hearing "To the victor go the spoils" about the election, which seems entirely inappropriate to the aftermath of an election.
Nick
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