So, if it won't alter the outcome of the election, why bother with all this door-knocking? Two reasons. First, Kantian imperative. Second, because canvassing a representative sample of your constituents serves as a kind of massive rolling focus group. It tells you what people are thinking. And what they're thinking now, at least in Berkshire, is "How do we get rid of that morose, cack-handed, wastrel, incompetent, incontinent, gurning oaf in Downing Street?"
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau.
Sunday, 3 May 2009
Spawn Smacked By Kantian Imperative
Daniel Hannan and his Kantian imperative (Could Labour come fourth on 4 June?). I can't help liking someone who can come up with that:
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