Wesley Clark and Karl Rove on Voter Particpation

Karl Rove's remarks on voting behaviour in the US is striking. 49% of America's 18-25 year olds voted in the 2004 election. Former Presidential candidate Wesley Clark and Former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove encourage everyone to vote in the presidential election.
NordlichReitersays...

I wonder if we could put George Carlin's theory to the test.

Here's his belief, which is my hypothesis. His idea of voting is that it is like masturbating. Not doing anything.

My hypothesis is that the two party system is hellbent on controlling the outcome of elections through campaign commercials, monetary contributions, and shit like that.

Projected outcome? The corrupt system will expose itself due to a massive hemorrhaging of votes that go away from the two parties.



So here's the experiment: We should call it "The Test of a Democratic Republic."


  • Inform people of the experiment and it's goals.
  • Find a candidate that best represents the people. Someone with integrity, honesty, transparent monetary flow. Who doesn't take campaign contributions in exchange for policy change. Someone who doesn't bend for lobbyists. Lastly someone who is independent of the two parties. I didn't say this step would be easy.
  • Propose that every Us Citizen be part of this experiment by voting for a non-sequitur candidate described in step 2.
  • Finally? Analyze the results. If the Candidate was voted in with out proof of corruption in the system then we would know that the hypothesis is incorrect. Otherwise? We have more problems that we could ever wish for.


I doubt the experiment would make it through step 2.

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