Part four in a series about what's wrong with our electoral system and the reforms needed to make our votes truly count.
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Big Media has become increasingly adept at making government and politics - what was once known as "current affairs" - into something different. Not something to be questioned and examined poked and prodded and held to account, but an entertainment.
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I’ve begun writing here and at The Seminal about the sense of boycotting elections. (See the opening installments here, here, and here.) Demofrantics (those who shamelessly toe the party line, no matter how ridiculous it gets), call that throwing the election to our opponents, just as they have since Nader in 2000 (I know, big fuckin’...
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[Note: I've edited this post a little in hopes that now, even an idiot can understand it. Apparently some mistook the quoted matter in the post as Iacocca's actual words. THEY ARE NOT. Which anyone with basic Internet and reading skills might have understood from the original post -  had they bothered to actually read it. C'mon,...
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This is the second of two posts from an early blog of mine, provided now to give some context to my belief that not voting – and counting those non-votes – is the quickest route toward reforming our broken system. This post and the one put up yesterday are further proof that the more...
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Over at FireDogLake the other day, I mentioned my intent to post some of the writing I’ve done over the years about our electoral system. I feel that system is severely broken, to the extent that I’ve been a non-voter most of my life.  Many moons back, when my life was topsy turvy – I had a pending...
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Firedoglake’s Eli has a nice post which begs larger questions for progressives; (1) how pure is too pure? and, (2) what can we do to expedite change? Eli’s point that change is painfully incremental is well taken (or, put another way…), and I think most of us would agree his characterization of that incrementalism as “cautious”...
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While I was traveling with a colleague four weeks ago, he bought a copy of Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government.” Two days ago, he announced that he is pursuing a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Though our belief systems differ, he is the kind of guy I picture...
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Think today’s cave-in on health insurance reform by Mr. Change We Can Believe In is bad? Just wait. Here’s what happens next: Obama and Senate Dems claim victory. Brace yourself to hear, again and again, the following boat load of bullshit: “This bill offers comprehensive reform, but is just the first step in incremental...
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It used to be hard, watching as Dick Cheney giddily advocated torture. Even a Lefty like me doesn’t want to see a once - uhhh, okay… I guess - political party being gutted by one of its own. But when I heard The Ol’ Sharpshooter is joining daughters Liz and Mary to form a political consultancy, it hit me:...
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