Offtopic - Re: [Gllug] Geforce2

[Roger Wernersson]

My point is that both "women voting" and "end of slavery" came to be
because alot of people put their life at risk by challenging
governments. Only when the protests became big enough did the
parliaments change the laws.

Democracy often lags behind a decade from public opinions. This is
acceptable in my opinion because even though democracy takes time, you
can always change a bad decicion. Dictators don't give you that option.

/Roger

mriscott at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >I'm from Sweden and was a bit happier paying taxes there. I'm not that
> >happy now when my current tax payments fund nuclear weapons among other
> >things.
> >
> >I realise voting wont make a major change, but I'm happy if it keeps the
> >conservatives at bay. Real changes always starts outside parliament. I'm
> >all for direct action and NGO:s.
> >
> >/Roger, organised
> My feeling is that voting *can* make a major change, it just takes
> time - mainly because you have to convince a lot of other people.
> Changing opinions takes time.  For instance, few would vote for a
> party that endorsed slavery or denied the vote to women these days -
> whereas this was general political thinking a century ago.  Similarly,
> 15 years ago plenty of people would have accepted that a vote for
> labour was a wasted vote.
> 
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