Comments for Americans Have Super-Powers, Too! at http://www.rcreader.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.rcreader.com Sun, 19 May 2013 02:39:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/americans-have-super-powers-too/#comment-2166 Americans are so willing to defend their right to be 'Minutemen' & have that 'musket' in the rack. But somehow need to learn their individual vote is as important as that rifle. It causes 'us' pain in other countries to see such a low turno...ut of your citizenry to participate in your democratic institutions. The apthay of the general citizenry 'plays' into the hands of the ruling elite, who happily encourage that empathy. I will qualify as an Australian for being able to venture an 'opinion' as my partner is a former American citizen, ex USAF, now naturalised Australian who 'fled' here so disenchanted with US policies. In Australia, voting is COMPULSORY for all citizens. Failure to vote results in a 'fine'. A token fine. This DOES NOT mean that a person actually has to vote, just turn up to the voting booth & have their name 'ticked' off on the electoral roll as attending. A persons vote is still 'secret' and what you choose to do with your ballot paper is still an individual choice, for example, some people 'choose' to write messages of displeasure or even abuse rather than mark off a candidate choice, and that vote is 'recorded' as 'informal' and even this 'informal' vote is counted, which can in its own right give our political leaders a measure of electoral 'feeling'... 'We' who observe from afar the US political 'system' and then hear its 'leaders' espouse that the USA is 'champion of democracy' often 'scratch our heads' and wonder what type of 'democracy' it is with voter turnouts of 30-40% and do simple mathematics that see us ponder that ultimately the 'votes' of 15% of the 'people' see that 'mandate' imposed on the other 85% and ask ourselves is that 'democratic' ? - Craig Bush Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:22:47 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/americans-have-super-powers-too/#comment-2116 Anybody that wants to know what is going on can simply watch C-Span and get on the internet to look up the legislation. It's there if anyone is interested. - LaRue Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:22:39 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/americans-have-super-powers-too/#comment-2096 Great artical Kathleen & thank you for the backup and locations of follow up - Paul McCarthy Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:59:24 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/americans-have-super-powers-too/#comment-2094 Glad to see this kind of coverage in your paper - between this and your jury nullification article you are doing a great service to Americans everywhere. Thank you - Ed Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:58:57 +0100