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

Thats relevant.  This is your thread.  I am asking YOU.

ROTFLMAO!
I have been concerned with this sham and illusion for decades.

NOW -- other than your endless efforts at fallacy -- what is it you imagine that has to do with:

"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 Congress

90 million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional elections. 220 million didn't. So much for the consent of the governed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (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."

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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

For what its worth, I DO think voter apathy is an issue, while at the
same time thanking every single person who couldn't find the
wherewithal to get off their asses and vote, for doing precisely the
right thing.


Apathy?  You spout the State's teachings well.
Maybe most realize their vote is meaningless and that the entire charade is just that.

Regard$,
--MJ

A government, at bottom, is nothing more than a gang of men and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men ... Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one and even those governments that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far from wrong to describe the best government as the common enemy of all decent citizens.  -- H.L. Mencken