[thechat] US Elections

[rudy]

> > (no offence to anyone who seriously believes
>>  this party has the right stuff)
>
>  no problem -- it's my way of marking *None of the Above*

"whew"

i was worried, almost right after i sent it

we have a procedure in canada which allows us to "decline" the ballot

by law they have to count those separately

it's supposed to represent voter displeasure with the entire slate of
candidates

from that point of view, i can certainly understand your choice of
libertarian

too bad such a huge part of politics is

  - dumbing down
  - negative ads
  - fearmongering
  - empty promisesd and outright lies
  - and, worst of the bunch, buying votes

> For some silly reason, I think chicken pox is kinda personal

i don't know what it's called on anybody's political spectrum scale, but
vaccinating against certain things is, in my mind, a perfectly reasonable
thing to request of somebody who wishes to attend school, a common resource

i have no problem with government legislating stuff like that, because it's
a common resource, and letting infectious kids loose in a school environment
is an extremely hostile thing for a parent to do (and it's the parent's
fault, make no mistake) and the rest of us deserve to be protected against
shit like that

and if that rankles, then let the parent send his infectious prodigy to a
private school

oh, the parent doesn't have a private school?  oh, the parent thinks he has
a *right* to his child being educated in the public system?

well, okay, but the parent has to play by the rules that are there for the
protection of all

does that make me anti-libertarian?

rudy