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Originally Posted by llama64
Please expand on your definition of the "real world". They way you phrase it, it is insinuating that some how I'm out of touch with reality and don't know what I'm talking about. As far as I know, there is only one "world" and we all live in it.
And in the end, it's the technical part that governs our lives. What do you think Law is based on? Opinion?
I'm no expert. I happen to have studied our base government system and believe people are voting one way expecting something that in reality (or as I call it, the "real world") doesn't exist.
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If you want to lump yourself in with the so-called Experts... you know, those that study the theory of things and not the actual workings of things... then that is your perogative.
A lot of professors are very smart people, but they know how things should work and not how they do work. A lot of people have book smarts but don't have street smarts. Same analogy can work here.
I look at it this way. The biggest result that comes from an election is which party gets power. As a result of this, people vote for who they want to be in power. Only under special cases (like Ralph Goodale in SK) does the actual MP mean more than the party. Back bench MPs do very little for their constituency... and the theory would back this up.
Technically, you are correct. Vote for your local representative and the chips will lay where they may. In real life, the decision is very different.