election demographics

[Brad DeLong]

>On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>  It is one of the most precious and powerful rights we
>>  collectively possess. Not to exercise it is a powerful
>>  indication that you are a clueless bozo...
>
>Do you reall persuade a lot of people with this strategy? 
>
>You know, the Mom and apple pie elementary school civics lesson
>followed by the insult?  Sort of like being Good Cop and Bad Cop
>all at once.
>
>This actually works?
>

It's supposed to make you stop and think. Why not participate in an 
exercise of collective choice--flawed as it might be? Especially when 
you think about how much better the world would have been with more 
democracy over the past two centuries.

It's very hard to believe that people who aren't willing to take the 
time to vote have anything interesting to say about the process of 
our collective self-determination at all...

Brad DeLong