Re: 2010 Mid-Terms: Only 29% Consent to be Governed by the 112th US Congress

Ahhh yes, a failure to proofread ...

58% (rather than 54) of  those with the Government's permission to do so voted none of the above.
AND only
29% of the governed participated in the charade

It occurred to me that maybe you did not grasp that those in the US -- whether the Government allows them to vote or not -- end up ruled.

Regard$,
--MJ

"Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated not to some incomprehensible noble purpose but to plain, naked human evil" -- Alyssa Rosenbaum





At 01:27 PM 11/4/2010, you wrote:

90 million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional
elections. 220 million didn't.
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You're not so good at math are ya.  That would, in fact, be every man
woman and child in the country.

Bigger turnout than in 06 when the dems won.  You negating that
election too?

I didn't think so.

All too easy.

On Nov 4, 12:05 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> It has become rather apparent that you have no interest beyond
> spewing nonsensical fallacy while continuing to remove all doubt
> anyone may have had.
>
> That the US Government restricts who may vote is hardly relevant
> since it will RULE everyone.  Additionally, the author notes that 54%
> of those who have obtained the Government's permission TO vote
> said NONE OF THE ABOVE.
>
> Hair wafting yet again.
>
> Regard$,
> --MJ
>
> Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
> and conscientious stupidity.   -- Martin Luther King, Jr
>
> At 11:22 AM 11/4/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >90 million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional
> >elections. 220 million didn't.
> >-----------------------------------------------------
>
> >Newsflash - We do not allow every man, woman and child to vote.  Duh!
>
> >Turnout was MUCH higher Tuesday than in the 06 midterms, when the dems
> >won.  Where was this idiot Knapp then?
>
> >Its a rhetorical question.  We know
>
> >On Nov 4, 11:09 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > > "A majority of those who could have voted
> > refused to. A supermajority either chose not to
> > vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp.
> > "Yet for the next two years, that politician
> > will claim to 'represent,' and to possess
> > legitimate authority to rule, all of them."2010
> > Mid-Terms: Only 29% Consent to be Governed by
> > the 112th US Congress90 million Americans voted
> > in the 2010 mid-term congressional elections.
> > 220 million didn't. So much for the consent of
> > the governed.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPRLog (Press
> > Release)­Nov 04, 2010­ According to the
> > Associated Press, 90 million Americans -- only
> > 42% of registered voters -- pulled the lever
> > for a congressional candidate on Tuesday.
> > That's just a hair under 29% of the US population of 310.6 million.
> > > "So much for the consent of the governed,"
> > says Thomas L. Knapp of the X2012 Project
> > (http://x2012.us). "In a typical district, the
> > next US Representative was chosen by, at most,
> > one out of four or five registered voters and
> > less than one in six of his or her alleged constituents."
> > > "A majority of those who could have voted
> > refused to. A supermajority either chose not to
> > vote or weren't allowed to vote," says Knapp.
> > "Yet for the next two years, that politician
> > will claim to 'represent,' and to possess
> > legitimate authority to rule, all of them."
> > > The X2012 Project aims to put the lie to
> > those claims. Launched as the polls closed on
> > Tuesday evening, X2012 is a "branding campaign"
> > which allows non-voters to dispute the
> > conventional wisdom that their abstention is
> > rooted in apathy or that it constitutes
> > implicit consent to the existing system of
> > government. By the time 2012 rolls around, the
> > project hopes to have millions of non-voters on the record as non-consenting.
> > > A July Rasmussen poll found that only 23% of
> > Americans believe the US government functions
> > with "the consent of the governed" -- the
> > criterion of legitimacy set forth by America's
> > founders in the Declaration of Independence.
> > > "Thomas Jefferson didn't say 'a majority of
> > the governed,'" says Knapp. "Even a significant
> > minority of dissenters calls the legitimacy of
> > a government into question. Some estimates say
> > that fewer than one third of Americans
> > supported the Revolution at its beginning.
> > We've got a better case against John Boehner,
> > Harry Reid and Barack Obama than Tom Paine had against George III."
> > > # # #
> > > The mission of The 2012 Project is to provide
> > a popular/identifiable brand for, facilitate
> > media coverage of, and support grassroots
> > activism toward, a boycott of the 2012 US general election. http://bit.ly/ahdbqn
>
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