Letter to an Un-American Pen Pal
Dear (non-american-sounding-name-here)
Hi foreign friend. How things in your country/province/territory? Things are pretty crazy in America.
Last week we elected a new king. Here in America we decide our leaders through a "demokratic" method. This means we lock 12 people (choosen randomly) in one room for two days straight, with a big bucket of pickles. Each pickle has the name of one of the two candidates (also choosen randomly). In those two days, the twelve people in the room will eat all of the pickles in the bucket until there is one left. The name of the candidate on that last pickle is the new king.
How do you decide leaders in your nation? Write back soon.
Sincerely,
Your Pen Pal
Hi foreign friend. How things in your country/province/territory? Things are pretty crazy in America.
Last week we elected a new king. Here in America we decide our leaders through a "demokratic" method. This means we lock 12 people (choosen randomly) in one room for two days straight, with a big bucket of pickles. Each pickle has the name of one of the two candidates (also choosen randomly). In those two days, the twelve people in the room will eat all of the pickles in the bucket until there is one left. The name of the candidate on that last pickle is the new king.
How do you decide leaders in your nation? Write back soon.
Sincerely,
Your Pen Pal
posted by Brian | 1:24 AM
1 Comments:
I laughed at this, because the point you seem to be making is that our voting system has become as arbitrary as if we were in fact choosing the name of a king from a bucket of pickles! Ha ha ha! You are so silly! You know every vote counts and that the voting system is faultless in this great, great country of America!(Christ, Brian, are you trying to get us all arrested?)
-xo- Laura
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