Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance

Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance by Retra on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:25AM (#10547419)

Are you trying to say that people's political affiliations are a consequence of how their votes are counted?

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Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance by finnh on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:41AM (#10547505)

Not quite. rdancer's saying that the options people have to choose amongst/between are a consequence of how their votes are counted. Proportional representation tends toward a larger number of parties; first-past-the-post tends toward two. And "tends toward" can be read as "definitely leads to" in the case of fpp.

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Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance by Retra on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:39PM (#10550222)

Just because the party can't win elections doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance by rdancer on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:44PM (#10563641)

Think it through to the logical conclusion: What is a political party? How did it come to be what it is now? What happens when a political party loses popular support?

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