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Originally Posted by August
Maybe this would work with a European style Parliament but I don't think that "None of the Above" would work with our system of government.
What happens if "NA" were to win an election? Obviously another election would have to be held, maybe with new candidates. But primaries and election campaigns can take a year or more. Who occupies the office in the meantime? The incumbent? Some unelected trustee? And what happens if NA wins again?
It could go on literally for years.
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To say "No!" to a destructive regime and a destructive policy and to criminally corrupted parties, is not destructive in itself, but aims at enforcing change and revitalization of this old idea of that the people should be the sovereign.
The past decades led us all to a chaotic party of Lemmings dancing on top of a seething vulcan. I think it is clever to say "No!" to a continuation of that, instead of just having another poll over which old record to repeat next - while the DJ already has selected the next old tune anyway and is just cheating the masses. And none of the records played ever is new.
We gotta break out of this stasis that we allowed ourselves to get lured into. Most people in Europoe are against the EU - strangely, not a smallest reflection of this in national parliaments, or at the EU. A deadlock of two blocks in the US - I promise you the trenches have been dug so deep now that the next elections will do nothign for America, no matter who wins.
The only legitimation elections give is: the legitimation of the corruption that has taken over the system. What party wins, is cosmetical only. To make people think they must stick with a corrputed system - that is what it is about.
"No!" Enough is enough. Since decades and decades it went from bad to worse. First the corrupted and the lobbyists took over, then came the incompetent career-egos, then formed up the present culture of public deception, the oligarchic marriage of business and politics in the same hands, then raised the utmost dilettantism that haunts our world today on all levels: arts, media, banks, economy, politics, education, even sciences, and it all seems to climax in the brain-crippeling media entertainment meant to please the crowds and keep them silent.
Panem et circensis. That is not a civilisation satisfying for a homo sapiens. But it seems to perfectly fit a homo demens.