The New Statesman, a British magazine with a venerable history and a large readership, has this article about U.S. presidential primaries. The article points out that U.S. politicians must spend more time campaigning than the politicians of any other democratic nation, and blames primaries.
super simple –
NOOOOOO primaries [and caucuses and conventions].
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ONE Election Day.
EQUAL ballot access test[s].
PR and AppV and TOTSOP.
I don’t blame JUST primaries. It’s the non-parliamentary strong-presidential system (but France also pretty much has that). PLUS the long tilt toward dupoly, abetted by the electoral college (France does NOT have that). Plus, the size of the US in both area and population.
TOTAL ROT list [for BAAAADE history reasons] –
1. ANTI-Democracy Minority Rule gerrymanders.
2. UNEQUAL ballot access laws.
3. ALL primaries, caucuses and conventions.
4. Partisan Exec/Judic HACKS/tyrants.
5. Unequal definitions of Elector-Voters.
6. Many super-dangerous violations of Separation of Powers.
Result — ALL the accumulated R-O-T now in the USA and all States/Locals regimes.
Why do you consider this magazine venerable?
Demo Rep, how would you prohibit caucuses and/or conventions without running afoul of the first amendment?
CP – INDIVIDUAL nominations by equal nom pets/filing fees.
Partisan hacks can have their clubby extremist meetings stuff and endorse whomever.
NO govt connected nomination stuff — esp any public $$$ for such hack meetings.
CP- ALL candidates directly on general election ballots.
PR legis
AppV – exec/judic
Both pending Condorcet.
also ALL paper mail ballots – OR, WA, CO, etc survive.
Jim Riley: The New Statesman has been a prestigious political magazine in the UK since 1913. John Maynard Keynes, George Orwell, Virginia Wolfe, and Christopher Hitchens have been contributors.
JMK-
ECON SUPER-MORON —
WHY THE USA IS NOW TOTALLY BANKRUPT DUE TO ALL GOVTS ACCUMULATED DEBTS —
MAY CAUSE END OF Western Civilization — and NEW Stone Age of killer tribal monarchs/oligarchs.
Maybe it’s time to look at climate change differently? American title The Atlantic has started a newsletter dedicated to the subject, with the less-than-apocalyptic title Not Doomed Yet. Founder Robinson Meyer realised news organisations were trying to make an abstract and slowly-evolving subject conform to the headline-driven rules of the news cycle.