Originally posted by j2k4@29 July 2004 - 19:49
Once upon a time, it would not have occurred to a potential voter to exercise such an important right in a less-than-rigorously-responsible manner.
These days the simple exercise of the right supercedes any felt need to exercise it conscientiously.
Believe it or not, people used to have a bit more personal discipline, and one wouldn't have had to worry quite so much about whether the person pulling the lever had the slightest inclination to make him/herself aware of the possible consequences of doing so.
I think you overly romanticise the past and the presumed "responsibility" of the voters of old.You've ALL missed my point, which was contained very neatly in my last post.
Today's campaign seems to me somewhat reminiscent of the 1968 race.
Were we more responsible then?
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