You would be forgiven, though, for feeling increasingly helpless as you hear the "most important election" mantra repeated daily: unless you happen to be a voter in a handful of swing states, there's little you can do about the final result. If you're not American, the situation is more acute. [...] And yet, though the US Declaration of Independence speaks of "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind", you don't, of course, have a vote.
Your 'democracy' is about to be
subverted/assisted (?) by hordes of
Guardian readers. Decent respect to the opinions of mankind my arse, it's time to get scribbling to a voter in
Clark County, Ohio.
Comments
"The reactionary stereotype of a Guardian reader is a person with leftist or liberal politics rooted in the 1960s, working in the public sector, regularly eating lentils and muesli, wearing sandals and believing in alternative medicine and natural medicine." Tee hee, they got the first one right, as far as I'm concerned, even though I wasn't even around in the 60s! Typically great Wikipedia entry. Planethalder.
Posted by: Planethalder | October 15, 2004 5:07 AM