Choice
Today is election day. So vote. Or don't vote. Up to you. The right to vote should include the right not to.
Everybody gets one vote. I guess that's fair. (It's not the only way to go, as anyone familiar with shareholder meetings knows.) And you're not allowed to sell your vote--though you are allowed to vote for someone who's promising you stuff.
I wonder what would happen if it were legal to sell votes. What sort of government would we get? (A lot of people have quick answers, but I don't think it's that easy.)
More important, how much could I sell my vote for? Presumably, not much. Vote buyers don't want to throw away their money, and have limited budgets. As John F. Kennedy once joked, his father told him don't buy a single vote more than is necessary.
So anyway, win or lose, enjoy election day. It's certainly better than the alternatives.
posted by LAGuy @ 9:51 AM
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The triumph of hope over the market
The one thing we can count on is losing.
SWMBCg, etc.
Well, maybe Rich Cordray will come back to the Law School as a lecturer.
Robert Heinlein penned a wonderful essay in which he listed several alternatives to our system (without explicitly endorsing any of them).
One of his ideas: Anyone can purchase a franchise, for a set price. If you want, you can buy 500 of them, and you get 500 votes. Revenue from the sale of franchises is the government's sole source of income.
He suggested that the rich would oppose this idea, because buying an election under this system would be more expensive than buying an election is today.
Communist though he is, Obama deserves the Congressional Medal of Freedom for keeping the Clinton's out of the White House.
Similarly, DeWine did the nation a service keeping Cordray out. The 2020 fliers were probably already printed.
SWMBCg, etc.
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