Funny, but in that way that makes you want to poke your eyes out with a sharp stick.

[jenn_unplugged]

Just received this urgent public health warning from my aunt in an email:

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new and virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him" Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas.

The sad thing is that we have four candidates on the ballot for governor in Texas, and while the Republican candidate has about a third of the vote according to the polls, the rest of the vote is split almost equally between the other three candidates. I'm not sure whether a majority is required to elect a governor here or if a plurality will do, but it's sad to think that two-thirds of the voters don't want to vote for the guy who will likely win. In what universe is that really democracy?

Comments

[afb.livejournal.com]

Democracy is only good when you're on the winning team, and I consider that a serious problem with it. I have issues with any system that allows people to oppress each other by majority vote. I don't have an alternative suggestion, either, really, not being a political science major, but if you're asking "how is it really democracy if so many people are getting screwed over?", the thing is, democracy always screws people over (case in point: George W. Bush). So in this universe, that is really democracy. It's just the frustrating, ugly side of democracy -- the one we all ignore when we end up on the winning team.

[jenn-unplugged.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I know, and you're right. It's just depressing. Living where I live, I don't get to be on the winning team a lot, and the issues that I think are so critically important just get twisted and sidelined over and over by people who seem to me to be from another planet.

Being a Democrat in Texas is like being a member of a third party. Kinky Friedman will get more votes that the Dem candidate will. It's easy to see why people would just give up on the process and not vote at all.

Texas and California

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Howdie from California! I was just passing on through checking out various Live Journals and found this interesting topic. Hope you don't mind a stranger leaving a comment, but I was wondering if Democrats have won any statewide offices in Texas since former Governor Ann Richards? Does anyone remember the former Governor's funny remark on Bush Sr. during the 1988 Democratic National Convention: "Poor George, he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"? Fantastic! I haven't followed Texas politics much, but there is a connection between Texas and California's Governor; Arnold Schwarzenegger would like to thank former Texas Enron energy traders for their help in blindsiding former California Governor Grey Davis with an energy "crisis" which led to a successful recall against him, thus giving us the "Terminator"! Did Davis mess with Texas? :) Like many other Democrats, I too feel like my views are not being politically represented. And how could I not since my party doesn't control the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. That's right folks, how can there be checks and balances when all three branches of government are controlled by the same party?! I wonder what James Madison would be thinking right now... Well thanks for the Texas hospitality, see ya'll at the polls! - Dan