Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Difference between Australia and the USA - here it’s illegal NOT to vote. In the US it appears it is illegal (at least for some) TO vote. You have a strange idea of Democracy and how it works

Never knew that about Australia. Perhaps it's time for the US to consider such a law. Would love to hear some of our representatives try to argue against it.

I’ll argue against it right here: The problem with our voting system is that we rarely have people to vote *for* rather than *against*. Forcing people to pick from two crap choices just makes those choices worse over time.

Your point may be true but not sure why that makes requiring participation a bad idea.

Requiring participation in a scenario where your only two choices are crap means that the parties know you *must* pick one of those two, so they have no reason to give us a good candidate who works for the people. They just need a very slightly better candidate than the other.

Not true. Yes there are two main parties but also independents and specific interest groups. They usually gain more power when main parties are crap

You must be arguing that the parties are not crap, or that there are lots of independents/third parties in power...