Who would Camus vote for? If we assume Camus is not like Meursault in any way and he wrote The Stranger to show how nihilism is bad, Camus would vote for Obama because he would try to inform himself with all the candidates, understand that only a democrat or republican could win, realize Romney lies all the time, and vote for Obama. If Camus were like Meursault, he wouldn't vote because it wouldn't matter.
Voltaire would vote for Obama because in Candide, Voltaire explained why greed is bad. Romney wants to decrease taxes on the rich but studies have shown that this doesn't stimulate the economy but instead only helps the rich. The GOP has also gone out of their way to kill these studies showing the fraud in the system which Voltaire doesn't like either.
There was a perceptive bit to this post. Most people took it as a given that whatever Voltaire and Camus wrote about, they believed and were like. Even I fell prey to that, but you made the distinction between the views of the authors and what is depicted in their works. I agree that they are merely illustrative of certain philosophies, not commentaries on the views of the authors. Mega-democratic bias in this post though lol.
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