The Detroit News has this op-ed by Conner Drigotas, saying the U.S. needs independent candidates.
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Detroit News Carries Op-Ed Saying U.S. Needs More Independent Candidates — 9 Comments
Do ANY of the *media* folks look at BAN ???
— to learn about the TOTAL ROT about UNEQUAL ballot access, ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders, partisan HACK execs and judges and FATAL violations of Separation of Powers.
Now – politics is one more mindless media sports game – winners/losers.
NO connection with reality – economics, ecology, govt insane deficits and debts, etc.
God, that’s a silly piece. The author sounds like a person who wants centrist independents because Dems are too liberal and there’s “too much partisanship.”
The author’s also ignorant of how a lack of public campaign financing means too many Congresscritters from both parties are whores to donors, including on the 3- and 4-day “weekends” they spend back in their districts. More “independent” candidates, short of either changes to pass public campaign financing for Congresscritters or else getting a bunch of actual leftists elected, won’t change that.
Men, the national Libertarian Party has a mechanism in their approved bylaws, where preference voting can be used for the 538-member Electoral College, and maybe where #1 is Prez and #2 VP.
Contact me James Ogle for US President or Vice President, and LNC Secretary, to start planning.
If we use the approval voting system then the biggest faction can elect 100% of both seats but we want limited voting so to bring the correct math for pure proportional representation so two different factions can elect Prez and VP with 33.33% plus one vote each.
No more 100% male Prez/VP candidates, 100% male Electors and male 100% delegates elected to Libertarian Party national convention like New Hampshire did in 2020, and like nine states plus DC did in 2016 under the Johnson/Weld campaign.
In the new three-chair and two-Secretary system the threshold for electing one of the five execs, will be 16.66% plus one vote and so smaller factions might excesize their voting power within the 538-member team, as one at-large coast-to-coast national district.
There is no way we can bring the three-party system or the 539-party system to the 538-member Electoral College unless we start using limited voting.
One hundred percent of all men to demonstrate teamwork with those not like us, bring humility and change US history in 2020 by bringing limited voting and rank only our opposite gender ahead of our own and consecutively ranked alternating genders thereafter with voluntary opt-in.
No more male single-winner election district power grabbers, no more males self-nominating males and no more males nominating males.
Only collaboration for the good of the whole in 2020.
Find the list if ten female Libertarian Party Presidential candidates on James Ogle for US President web page that’s linked to the national site http://www.lp.org under “Presidential Candidates” on web page footer.
With 16.66% threshold for five executives we can try to win a seat on the executive by uniting with women.
People don’t want “a bunch of actual leftists” getting elected, and most people don’t want their taxes to go to politicians.
I hear that Thomas Jones lives in Detroit. Go down there in person and complain if you don’t like the article.
Detroit – almost ruins — as in olde Middle East
1950-2010 – 60 years — loss of about 62 (62) pct of population
— due to RED Donkey COMMUNISM.
MODEL FOR ALL LARGER OLDER CITIES — coming D-O-O-M for Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.
Mr. Drigotas seems to be a typical millennial who appears to think he’s a woke libertarian (an oxymoron of high degree). He’s a writer for “Young Voices” with op-eds appearing on Glenn Beck’s web site, the Washington TImes, Detroit News, et al.
The bottom line is that he doesn’t have a clue how the world of politics actually works (e.g. the duopoly strangle-hold via campaign finance, the problem of FPTP elections, a compliant media that happily takes advertising money by the boatload and then writes/talks favorably about the big spender). Mr. Drigotas thinks he’s got something to add to ‘the conversation’. He doesn’t.
As usual Don Wills nailed it!
Don, I’d perfectly agree with that as a follow-up to what I said!
Do ANY of the *media* folks look at BAN ???
— to learn about the TOTAL ROT about UNEQUAL ballot access, ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders, partisan HACK execs and judges and FATAL violations of Separation of Powers.
Now – politics is one more mindless media sports game – winners/losers.
NO connection with reality – economics, ecology, govt insane deficits and debts, etc.
God, that’s a silly piece. The author sounds like a person who wants centrist independents because Dems are too liberal and there’s “too much partisanship.”
The author’s also ignorant of how a lack of public campaign financing means too many Congresscritters from both parties are whores to donors, including on the 3- and 4-day “weekends” they spend back in their districts. More “independent” candidates, short of either changes to pass public campaign financing for Congresscritters or else getting a bunch of actual leftists elected, won’t change that.
Men, the national Libertarian Party has a mechanism in their approved bylaws, where preference voting can be used for the 538-member Electoral College, and maybe where #1 is Prez and #2 VP.
Contact me James Ogle for US President or Vice President, and LNC Secretary, to start planning.
If we use the approval voting system then the biggest faction can elect 100% of both seats but we want limited voting so to bring the correct math for pure proportional representation so two different factions can elect Prez and VP with 33.33% plus one vote each.
No more 100% male Prez/VP candidates, 100% male Electors and male 100% delegates elected to Libertarian Party national convention like New Hampshire did in 2020, and like nine states plus DC did in 2016 under the Johnson/Weld campaign.
See how 82% were male LP Presidential Electors 2016:
http://www.allpartysystem.com/electoral-college.php
In the new three-chair and two-Secretary system the threshold for electing one of the five execs, will be 16.66% plus one vote and so smaller factions might excesize their voting power within the 538-member team, as one at-large coast-to-coast national district.
There is no way we can bring the three-party system or the 539-party system to the 538-member Electoral College unless we start using limited voting.
The Libertarian One 2020 explains the plan in three-minute video:
https://youtu.be/TXh-A_YUn7g
One hundred percent of all men to demonstrate teamwork with those not like us, bring humility and change US history in 2020 by bringing limited voting and rank only our opposite gender ahead of our own and consecutively ranked alternating genders thereafter with voluntary opt-in.
No more male single-winner election district power grabbers, no more males self-nominating males and no more males nominating males.
Only collaboration for the good of the whole in 2020.
Find the list if ten female Libertarian Party Presidential candidates on James Ogle for US President web page that’s linked to the national site http://www.lp.org under “Presidential Candidates” on web page footer.
With 16.66% threshold for five executives we can try to win a seat on the executive by uniting with women.
People don’t want “a bunch of actual leftists” getting elected, and most people don’t want their taxes to go to politicians.
I hear that Thomas Jones lives in Detroit. Go down there in person and complain if you don’t like the article.
Detroit – almost ruins — as in olde Middle East
1950-2010 – 60 years — loss of about 62 (62) pct of population
— due to RED Donkey COMMUNISM.
MODEL FOR ALL LARGER OLDER CITIES — coming D-O-O-M for Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.
Mr. Drigotas seems to be a typical millennial who appears to think he’s a woke libertarian (an oxymoron of high degree). He’s a writer for “Young Voices” with op-eds appearing on Glenn Beck’s web site, the Washington TImes, Detroit News, et al.
The bottom line is that he doesn’t have a clue how the world of politics actually works (e.g. the duopoly strangle-hold via campaign finance, the problem of FPTP elections, a compliant media that happily takes advertising money by the boatload and then writes/talks favorably about the big spender). Mr. Drigotas thinks he’s got something to add to ‘the conversation’. He doesn’t.
As usual Don Wills nailed it!
Don, I’d perfectly agree with that as a follow-up to what I said!