I get it now. The Gulch was right, I was wrong.
In numerous posts here in The Gulch, I've been a staunch advocate of Federal standards for Federal elections.
I don't care if local officials are elected through punch card ballots and their hanging chads, or by Dominion systems, by picking a number between 1 and 1000, or playing Rock/Paper/Scissors. You can vote for those people any way you want, since you're the only ones who will have to pay the consequences of a bad decision.
I still firmly believe that if the elected position (e.g., President, Vice President, Senator, Representative) has the ability to screw up the lives of every single person in this country, then there should be absolutely consistency (if not uniformity) in how that person gets elected.
But while I believe the theory of the idea is 100% sound, The Wicked Witch of the West and HR1 have shown me that the reality of the idea is as unsound as it gets.
Discounting the legal aspects of States running elections any way they want, Pelosi has made me understand why Federal control of elections is such a bad idea.
So to everyone in The Gulch who took (and take) the other side of this argument, I'll concede the point. You were and are right. I understand the reality now.
When someone in power writes something as obscene as this in a blatant attempt at cementing that power for however long this country has to live (and I fear that's not very much longer), it perfectly illustrates the need to keep control of elections in the hands of the states.
I don't care if local officials are elected through punch card ballots and their hanging chads, or by Dominion systems, by picking a number between 1 and 1000, or playing Rock/Paper/Scissors. You can vote for those people any way you want, since you're the only ones who will have to pay the consequences of a bad decision.
I still firmly believe that if the elected position (e.g., President, Vice President, Senator, Representative) has the ability to screw up the lives of every single person in this country, then there should be absolutely consistency (if not uniformity) in how that person gets elected.
But while I believe the theory of the idea is 100% sound, The Wicked Witch of the West and HR1 have shown me that the reality of the idea is as unsound as it gets.
Discounting the legal aspects of States running elections any way they want, Pelosi has made me understand why Federal control of elections is such a bad idea.
So to everyone in The Gulch who took (and take) the other side of this argument, I'll concede the point. You were and are right. I understand the reality now.
When someone in power writes something as obscene as this in a blatant attempt at cementing that power for however long this country has to live (and I fear that's not very much longer), it perfectly illustrates the need to keep control of elections in the hands of the states.
