Do you want to continue to live in a democracy, or would you prefer a more authoritarian government?

[Anonymous]

I think the recent midterms should have been sufficient to show you just exactly how dangerous voting can be. Should we really continue to let people vote?

[lightbulb27]

Voting is over rated as are elections. imagine for a moment we had just accepted some personality faults, and kept bill clinton in office for 30 years. Would it have really been so bad?

Now take the election contributions for every election and total it up and donate it to address a critical social problem, like unhoused people. You'd wipe out that problem!

So I say vote for a stable govt, but make it a really good one. Only replace them if not confidence vote in govt, then you have a new vote. However, every 2 years, there are "fake elections"... like we are going to run candidates and fund raisers... but just before the elections, we the people steal and confiscate all the $ from those $25,000... no $75,000 a plate dinners and use it for our own purposes. We'd have billions to address critical problems.

Muhahhhhaaaahhhaaa!!!

never gonna happen.

[Asker]

Interesting, but this doesn't really answer the question. Can you do that?

[goaded]

A third term of Clinton (or a first of Gore) would have kept the security services concentrating on bin Laden and maybe avoided 9/11. Even if it hadn't, Iraq would not have been invaded.

[lightbulb27]

I took a middle ground approach. a medium term authoritarian govt.
But Im only around if lucky 30 years, you all get to deal with it after that.

[MrChinaski]

It's funny how little it takes for people to show their true colours.

[goaded]

If they weren't anonymous. (Even more so than our nicks on here.)

[Anonymous]

Democracy. Thank goodness for voting so we don't have Trump ruining America as much anymore.

[Anonymous]

Americans just voted to keep democracy. We are saved from Trump and facisim!!!

[slatyb]

Authoritarian governments are nightmares for anyone who isn't connected to the government.