Posted on 05/19/2011 6:11:55 PM PDT by SmithL
You say, “The only way to reverrse this is to eliminate public education!”
What???? Small towns tend to vote conservative and small towns pretty much attend public schools which are often the center of the community. Big cities tend to vote liberal and big cities have MANY private, so-called faith based, schools. Your argument doesn’t hold water. Why are you injecting the “public school” issue into this?
“Why are you injecting the “public school” issue into this?”
Because that is exactly where the socialist garbage that votes for such things has been created over the last 40 years.
All public education should be eliminated!
Your post:““Why are you injecting the “public school” issue into this?”
Because that is exactly where the socialist garbage that votes for such things has been created over the last 40 years.
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I think you are giving public schools a little too much credit. Kids tend to vote like their parents. You go into any public school and you will find the students split in the same way as the general public. Contrary to your belief, public schools don’t put out little drones who think liberal, vote liberal and preach liberal. Your child may not have gone to public school but, for most of us, that isn’t the case and we are just fine with the education they’ve received.
In my estimation at least 75% of the population under 50 is pure garbage.
They are the product of public education.
The two primary objections seem to be:
1. Big cities are liberal and vote corruption will only increase.
and
2. We will never get the minority vote, which is increasing.
Taking #2 first, if Republicans don’t figure out a way to campaign (honestly) for the minority vote, then they are a dying party. I don’t think that’s in any way a foregone conclusion. The Republican Party has been particularly stupid when it comes to the Hispanic vote. Hannity’s diatribes on immigrants (legal or otherwise — it’s usually hard to tell after he gets two minutes into one of his rants) are an excellent illustration of this.
As for vote corruption, the process now underway in states like Wisconsin (which just passed a voter ID bill) needs to go national. The average person would prefer the “purple finger” over what we have now. The Dems have pushed motor voter registration, extended absentee balloting, etc. We need to push back and restore the sanctity of the ballot.
Do both of the above, and as liberal governance continues to shrink the population in places like California, Illinois, Michigan and New York, and we will be in good shape. We should not have to fear a nationwide popular vote for President. We just have to tackle the issues that Soros is counting upon, but we need to do that anyway to succeed in the end.
My reaction wasn`t based on a scenario in which all 50 states adopt this approach.. only California. I agree it would wreak havoc if every state followed suit.
For me the problem with going to the popular vote wouldn’t be so much where people campaign (that doesn’t really matter) but fraud in big cities screwing the whole country instead of just individual states. And in any close race you’d have to have a nationwide recount, which would a supreme nightmare.
So while in principle the popular vote would work for me it’s not a good idea.
Sorry for late reply- good post.
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