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Old 11-21-2008, 06:14 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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We should really just do away with voting. A handful of people should just figure everything out for us and force us to do it.
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Old 11-21-2008, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Austin
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We should really just do away with voting. A handful of people should just figure everything out for us and force us to do it.
I know! It just sucks that I have to use the same drinking fountain as the coloreds. If only Texas had been allowed to vote on segregation-- I could be drinking out of a pure one right now!
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Old 11-21-2008, 06:27 PM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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We should really just do away with voting. A handful of people should just figure everything out for us and force us to do it.
Speak for yourself! I do not want to live under a monarchy as people are corrupt when too much power is given to them!
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Old 11-21-2008, 07:30 PM
 
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And good news for the OP - neither side will let the issue die!

Both sides in California's Prop. 8 battle look ahead to 2010 - Los Angeles Times
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Old 11-22-2008, 03:13 AM
 
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Good point, OP. And why did the blacks go on and on about that whole slavery thing? It's obviously what the people wanted.
Yeah, and what's up with that "women's lib" crap? Tell them to get back in the kitchen - I'm hungry!
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:27 AM
 
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We should really just do away with voting. A handful of people should just figure everything out for us and force us to do it.
Isn't that what is already done? The people could vote in the millions for or against something in their own state but a few intellectual elites sitting up on a bench in a distant place from most of America gets to decide if the people knew what they were doing because the people aren't smart enough to decide for themselves.
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:40 AM
 
Location: California
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And good news for the OP - neither side will let the issue die!

Both sides in California's Prop. 8 battle look ahead to 2010 - Los Angeles Times
Good I'm glad to see the yes on 8 side standing up agains't the intolerant side.
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:52 AM
 
Location: California
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I know! It just sucks that I have to use the same drinking fountain as the coloreds. If only Texas had been allowed to vote on segregation-- I could be drinking out of a pure one right now!
I'm so sure the gays have suffered as the blacks have, such a sad comparison when the gays consider themselves as a race of oppressed people. You haven't suffered one thing the blacks have.
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Old 11-22-2008, 02:48 PM
 
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Isn't that what is already done? The people could vote in the millions for or against something in their own state but a few intellectual elites sitting up on a bench in a distant place from most of America gets to decide if the people knew what they were doing because the people aren't smart enough to decide for themselves.
A few intellectual elites sitting on a bench in a distant place from most America were commissioned for their job by the Founding Fathers because the people do not always do what is right and altruistic. A few intellectual elites sitting on a bench in a distant place from most of America had to overturn popular opinion on many a civil rights issue. A few intellectual elites sitting on a bench in a distant place from most of America are the last firewall between Liberal Democracy and mob rule.

If there's one thing I've learned from this entire debate, it's that many Americans need to go back to civics class before they start blathering on about concepts they can't even wrap their minds around.
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Old 11-22-2008, 03:26 PM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Isn't that what is already done? The people could vote in the millions for or against something in their own state but a few intellectual elites sitting up on a bench in a distant place from most of America gets to decide if the people knew what they were doing because the people aren't smart enough to decide for themselves.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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