Re: Once more on you know what...

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor,

The US electoral college has been designed to safeguard state rights. As it 
turns
out, it also protects minority rights and gives the states with large urban
populations where minorities are concentrated more of a chance of beiing 
captured
by minority swing votes.  One man one vote direct election would dilute the
political power of minority group politics.

Henry

Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:

> En relación a Once more on you know what...,
> el 15 Dec 00, a las 21:27, Gary MacLennan dijo:
>
> > To argue that
> > non-participation in elections automatically makes you ahead is truly an
> > anarchist position.
>
> Yes, I agree. I still cannot understand the position of the American Left on
> this issue. The current American system seems to have been designed in order 
> to
> elliminate Tom Paine's "one man, one vote". Can't understand why don't they
> struggle in order to impose the "one person, one vote" principle again.
> American capitalism has developed in such a corporatist direction that the
> basic ideas of their best bourgeois heritage have been betrayed. What are
> American Leftists waiting to use this in their own benefit, for Marx's sake?
>
> I got punched when I suggested that the Argentinean "mandatory voting" system
> was more democratic than the American one. But I still keep stuck to the idea.
> Mandatory voting makes it an obligation for the State to provide equality of
> opportunities for every vote by every citizen, the country over. It is a
> tradition stemming directly from the French Revolution, in fact.
>
> Please enlighten me, American comrades... I admit that I am much of a
> "blockhead" on thse issues, but maybe you can explain what is it that I do not
> understand.
>
> Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
> gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx