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There's a problem with that, though: you not voting implies you're fine with whatever everyone else chooses. Which is currently (and has practically always been) a total circus-like sideshow.

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Anybody here taken any interest in British politics recently? If you have then I expect you will fully understand why the younger generations are so apathetic on the topic. For the average man on the street it really is a case of voting for whom you dislike least, or not at all.
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I know that your MPs have had a colossal scandal come to light in the last few months. And that some sort of internet filter has been implemented.

And that the same apathy you see there is rampant in the USA, too.

My local area has been shifting in the direction of UKIP during recent months. ''I'm nawt raicist...but it's bout time we try suttn new #bantheburka''.
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Tell them that would make them even more like France (which has in the past banned them, iirc). That should scare 'em right off it. The other thing UKIPers don't want is to become more like Europe.

My area is GOP dominated despite the farmers being slightly more DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) leaning. I had the misfortune of being represented by Michelle Bachmann during her last term in office.

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Oh good lawd, my sides. Especially knowing what UKIP is.

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BNP are more likely to come out with horrific sweeping statements with the sole purpose of getting people talking. Those are our far right no hopers.

Farage is just another of those guys that pop up after a recession, pretend to know about the common man [see him waving that pint around] whilst simultaneously blaming people at the bottom for the problems.

Although it isn't only the hateful groups that haven't got a clue . >mfw the Greens are far more likely to send a male drug dealer to prison than a female
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Britland is political funtown. Heard they banned female ejaculation and sent people to jail to make a point of how loli is disgusting. UKIP will of course fix everything.

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I don't vote, that way I can say "I had nothing to do with this" when the country goes to heck
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If someone said that to me IRL I'd be legit pissed.
 
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If someone said that to me IRL I'd be legit pissed.
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Well, you could take it the opposite way.

"You know how the country's gone to shit? Yeah, sorry about that."

As someone who doesn't vote, myself, I generally don't try to avoid blame for whatever comes with not voting, and I also don't really try to defend why I don't vote. I have my reasons, but rarely do people care, generally saying something about how people died for my right to vote, how it helps the country, etc. And I could contest those things, but ultimately I'll be criticized for being a terrible citizen and not caring about the well being of my homeland, which is...

Well, it comes with the territory, I guess.
 
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Anybody here taken any interest in British politics recently? If you have then I expect you will fully understand why the younger generations are so apathetic on the topic. For the average man on the street it really is a case of voting for whom you dislike least, or not at all.

My local area has been shifting in the direction of UKIP during recent months. ''I'm nawt raicist...but it's bout time we try suttn new #bantheburka''.

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Yeah, I've been keeping up with it a little bit. There is an interesting economic analysis by Paul Krugman here.

It goes into how the economic discourse in the UK is pretty misleading, reiterates the political science insight that people are freaking short sighted and that only 6 months to 1 year of economic news is the only thing that sticks to peoples minds when elections come around. Hence why any attempts at long term planning are a pretty hard sell.

Anyway, taking an Urban Policy and Planning class. Gotta review all that transportation stuff I learned last quarter lol.

But yeah, America, unlike European, Australia or Japan had the ability to just "sprawl" out it's urban areas, unlike dense cities in the latter. So cars became a dominant feature of transportation post-Interstate Highway System development.

Also don't forget "white flight." That's a huge component of suburban development.
 
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I've got 151 problems, but Percy ain't one :D
 
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