OT: Political Bias Affects Brain Activity, Study Finds.

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Hey Ien,

 

> Excellent tidbit Butch.

 

Thankee ma'am .. glad you enjoyed it. :-)

 

> Another reason for having a different sort of

> electoral system,

 

If this is " another " reason .. what are the others? ;-)

 

> one that forces people of different stripes to have

> to work together now and then.

 

I think you are referring to a " coalition " gummit. Except for

Cuba, North Korea, China, and a few of the Arabic and African

countries .. I think every gummit in the world has one of them.

 

And .. in the USA we have some liberal Republicans and some

conservative Democrats. Generally, parties have to come up with

a charter that is supported by the majority of their members ..

but for sure all will not support the entire charter. We saw

this in the nomination of our latest Supreme Court Justice ..

one of the most Liberal Democrats supported him against fellow

Liberals. And some other Liberal Democrats stopped a wasteful

filibuster effort.

 

> I am quite pleased with the fact that the new

> Canadian government is another minority one.

 

When there are many parties in the race we almost always find

the winning party to be a minority. Here in Turkey they had

something like forty parties in the last race .. gotta get at

least 10% of the popular vote to get a seat in the Parliament.

The party that won the most votes is the majority minority.

They won less than 35% of the popular vote. ;-)

 

Coalition gummits have a negative side .. I was a political

analysis for many years and I am still interested in it though

its not official now. When a minority gummit must depend on a

coalition we find a lot of prostitution. The party in power

needs support to push a bill so they promise all kinds of goodies

to the little splinter parties in order to get their support ..

and in many, many cases the things they promise do nothing for

the country or the people .. they assist the party that will

give the support.

 

I personally prefer the American system over the Parliamentary

type systems .. reason is .. we get a chance every two years to

tell individual senators they can continue to work .. or go find

honest employment .. and we can tell the representatives that

every four years. I also think we have more party line crossing

in our system .. if that were not the case then the one who wins

this or that election could pretty much be forecast in advance

(with a margin of error for the fence sitters) based on the number

of registered party members. When politicians politick they ain't

talking to the folks who are hard core party members .. they are

talking to those that are fence sitters and who will vote for the

person they think will do a better job .. party is not an issue.

 

I think that regardless of the form of gummit or the makeup of a

gummit .. if its democratic then political bias will be present

because we are human critters. Its rare in any gummit to have

representatives that don't vote their hearts and/or the whims of

their constituents. But .. it is not unheard of .. we do see that

happen from time to time in the USA.

 

> Ien in the Kootenays

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Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com