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Originally Posted by KMA-628
The only problem is that there is no such animal.
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What course of action could President Bush pursue that would reperesent your will and mine equally? You and I believe very differently; our will cannot be followed by a single candidate. It is an either/or situation based on the winner.
If Kerry had won, then you would more likely have your will pursued and I would be "disenfranchised". Conversely, with President Bush, my will (sort of) wins and yours loses.
I do not see any scenario with a President that would satisfy both of our "wills" equally. A little over half voted for him, so therefore, by majority, their "will" is more likely to be followed.
He can represent "all" people, but he (regardless of who "he" is) cannot please all of the people all of the time.
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well, technically, I wouldn't have had my will persued had kerry been elected, but that seems to go right over the conservatives heads on this board over and over and ov...
that's fine you think a majority's will ought to be followed. that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a slim majority. My entire point was that calling a few million over the top of the 55+ million people against does not mean your candidate has a popular mandate from the nation.
a popular mandate means that the country approves, as a whole, with what you are doing. we don't, this nation is very divided. and rather than shift a bit over to try and encompass their will, people are just cutting them out of the picture.
I can accept that my views along with a few hundred thousand people are so far radically to the left of mainstream politics that no candidate is going to seriously encompass all of my views.
But I don't understand how you can think
half the population is wacky and irreconcilable with your views. I don't think the same way about the 55+ million people who voted for bush. I see agreement between lefts and rights all the time. It's up to the politicians not to select wedge issues to run on. People in the know do it all the fucking time--despite what they lead you to believe via the media. Bush and kerry are going to get along just fine during the next 4 years. the majority of people on both sides of the aisle are going to continue addressing each other with respect despite and work with one another to pass legislation that does what you claim can't happen--govern both sides of the political spectrum.
Now, bush can join that reality. or his administration can continue to stretch the right limits of your party's ideology. there isn't anything in your party that precludes you from wielding the power that has just been won in a respectful and representative fashion. that's all in the president's hands, now, and he hasn't shown a very willingness to do that.
what is your party going to do after the war? or is there never going to be an after the war?
if you build bridges you will create a lasting empire. if you don't, then your party will go down in flames because you don't have a popular mandate--your party won by its nose and failure to recognize that isn't going to make all those people suddently agree with you the next election cycle.