Notes From the Six-Year-Old on Social Choice
On two possible stories (one involving porcupines and one involving bears) that I might tell in the car:
Clark: Let’s decide which story we want to hear. If we pick the same story then that’s the one we’ll tell. If we pick different stories, then we’ll tell the one that I picked.
Bob: Whoa, if we pick the same story then that’s the one, but if we pick different stories, we end up doing the one you said?
Clark: No, if we pick different stories, then we’ll just do the best one.
Then a little later he mentioned that he had voted for the kids on the 3rd-grade council.
Bob: So how do you pick the kids you voted for?
Clark: Well we only had to pick 3 kids.
Bob: Right, but how did you decide how to pick them?
Clark: Well we had to put an X next to their picture.
Bob: Right, but how did you figure out which kid you put an X next to? Like, were some of them your friends so you put an X next to their pictures?
Clark: No, I didn’t know them. They said some nice words. Guess what?! There was one kid who said, “If you vote for me, I’ll make your dreams come true.” Isn’t that funny? So I put an X next to his picture.
“There was one kid who said, “If you vote for me, I’ll make your dreams come true.” Isn’t that funny? So I put an X next to his picture.”
Priceless. I always wondered why we don’t let kids vote, it’s not like they behave any differently than the average voter.
Excellent, another interest group to cater to!
-ahem-
If elected, I will introduce legislation to mandate an extension of snack and nap time, as well as postpone bedtime to more humane conditions.
So Clark is on board with the Napoleon Dynamite theory of voting.
Is Clark a progressive?