BREAKING: President Obama Wants To Propose 'Mandatory Voting.' It would change everything.

[Warren DeMontague]

307. One) I said the opposite- I DON'T think, necessarily, compulsory voting would make people vote D.

Rather, I have to assume that the folks getting all gooey over the idea in this thread DO think so, because presumably that's at least one reason why they're so excited about something that, again, isn't going to happen.

Which leads into

Two) "why am I being so snotty"-- well, your response to me wasn't exactly not-snotty up there, was it? But why am I being so snotty about it? I don't know. I get a little bit eye-roll-y at the people here who positively froth at the mouth at the prospect of being able to make people do shit. Wheee, let's MAKE people vote! Hooray!

How about LET people vote? Wouldn't that be an effective start? The people who are paid by the hour, and want to, and have to wait in a 10 hour line in Ohio on a work day? No, we need to MAKE them because if there's one thing we know it is what's best for everyone and the only way to get the mindless muddled masses to behave properly is to MAKE them do things the way we know they SHOULD.

Yeah. It makes my eyes roll, that particular piece of pretense and 'tude. And my eyeroll muscles are directly connected to my snotty glands, I guess.

which, finally, leads into

Three) "isn't any more wishful-thinking than the things on your list"... really? REALLY? Asking our party and candidates to try to APPEAL to people not engaged by the current political system is as much wishful thinking as a quite likely unconstitutional measure to require people to vote, that is pretty certainly never going to see the light of an actual policy proposal?


My God, that is a profoundly sad statement, if true.

AND it's more unrealistic than, say, making election day a national holiday (doable, constitutional) or instituting a nationwide vote-by-mail system (doable, constitutional, and ALREADY IN PLACE in some states, like I said)