Quote Originally Posted by 8182KSKUSH
You are right, I understand what you are saying that the electoral college could vote for whomever they want to period.
But the tradition is to vote for whom your constituents voted for. There have been instances where that has happened, but that is political suicide, and those electors do get held accountable.
The biggest problem, is that we do not even have a majority of eligible voters voting. :wtf:
I am not really talking about the big national elections, but really about your local elections. It counts! Far too many just don't believe in it, or are apathetic. I think that we are getting exactly what we put into it, "our current government".
Shit shit shit shitty shit shit, on a shit stick.
But that issue, is not because of our "process of government", which as I said previously, is the best. IMHHO.:jointsmile:

Totally unrelated, I had an inspiring idea, somewhere, members here should make a pact to run for local city office, (or state or whatever you want I guess), can you imagine, in a few years, literally there could be any number of cannabis.com members, holding political seats everywhere. Now would be the time to start planning for the next elections. People are always asking what they can do for cannabis etc, well, you could go into the belly of the beast directly, you may or may not ever move the cannabis agenda forward, but you never know. You may do a whole lot of good in many other areas.
Waddya think?
couldn't agree more with ya on both points.
people need to understand that inaction will not do any good, and u r right, very few people compared to all eligible people to vote actually show up in different elections and cast their vote. This is especially true about younger generation, we need to get involved in OUR destiny from now, partying n everything is aight, but taking the tiny amount of time to cast your vote isnt gonna hurt anyone in any special way, u can sit there and bitch about anything n everything from bad days for voting and bad candidates, but when u dont vote, it only means u accept whatever that comes out by other peoples decisions.

i think this is indeed a bright idea that may actually get somewhere!!! hey! we got rebgirl runnin for prez already j/k

but yeah, its got to start from a community like this and from people like us, not every politician or office holder is a political science graduate, they were all people like us from the beginning, but had great ambition and interest in politics and ran with it, now look where they are @

although i must admit almost all of them do have higher education in political science or law, but i guarantee there are some out there with politics-irrelevant degrees and some without any college degrees at all (maybe the latter is just the extinct generation of office holders)

but all it takes is a will, u will acquire everything else in the process