I spoke at length today with a convicted republican. She’s quite intelligent, her leap of faith is belief in the bible, similar to my leap of faith believing things like ‘killing is always wrong’, and ‘all people are created equal’. I can’t in any rational way say that her jump makes less sense than mine, it’s just not the one I chose.

The first question I asked her was ‘Do you feel that the people you voted for in the election are representing your beliefs?’

The answer was a resounding ‘No.’ This is, of course, an incredibly unscientific study, but it does suggest the standpoint that the vast majority of voters are voting for the lesser of two evils. We are now involved in a system that is making a very few people happy most of the time, and making most people unhappy most of the time.

There must be a more equitable solution.