Want to stir up a hornet's nest? Just suggest boycotting an election – say, the upcoming midterms – to any dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Funny, though: Boycotting an election doesn't seem to scare the Burmese, despite their rulership by a military junta.
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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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This is the third in a series. Prior installments are here and here. As the true extent of the selling out of Americans’ best interests on health care becomes clear – and it is nothing short of absolute – many have suggested that the time is now for an alliance of the disaffected. The...
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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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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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