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If the Pee Emm wants to know if you're happy, then you tell him what you b****y well think! No! For crying out loud!
What most see as orderly change is, in truth, incremental change ...slow, unnoticed build up along a fault line or in a volcano.This continues as a natural outcome until there is sudden, violent change, which is often transformational. And then .... it repeats .... Far reaching change, long lasting change, is usually determined by events rather than by free will, IMHO.
MM
Where in the US have they experimented with eliminating traffic signs and stop lights ???
Is Democracy Over-rated?
".. Governments are over rated."
Agreed.
[I'm from the Government. I'm here to help you."]
MM
Given that there are dyed-in-the-wool leftists and equally obdurate right-wingers, politicians are fighting over the middle-ground of floating voters which, essentially, means that the "kingmakers" are those who sit on the fence or don't take a direct, active role in the political process - either way, it's a pitifully small proportion of the population who end up deciding who becomes the next leader.
...what else is there to do on a Saturday night in Bradford?
Firstly, Readie, I should apologise if my last post was mistaken for being a bit harsh;
Making it compulsory to vote doesn't improve either of the issues I raised - the uninformed still have the loudest voice and the "floating voter" remains a minority and hence has a disproportionate impact on the outcome of elections
Proportional representation, if implemented at all, needs to be done so very, VERY carefully. It's too easy to reach the ridiculous situation where every policy gets stalled because the squillions of little parties are all wasting time working out alliances on every single issue. In short, there's a real chance of absolutely nothing getting done - ever.
As for Bradford...I just chose that at random. I'm actually from t'other side o' t'border - St.Helens (when it was Lancashire not Merseyside).