Jonathan Bernstein, a political scientist, author, and reporter, here says that Massachusetts voters should vote against Question Three, the top-two initiative that is on the Massachusetts ballot.
Bernstein does not mention the point that the Massachusetts initiative is badly drafted so as to make it far more difficult for a minor party to retain qualified status.
“Political science” is the worst kind of junk science – pure toxic waste. “Political scientist, author, and reporter” can be put more succinctly as “propagandist,” or, in the vast majority of cases, even more succinctly as “shill.”
That’s true regardless of how much or little you, I, or anyone else agrees with this particular opinion column.
Ballot censorship by state ballot access laws are a core institution of the bipartisan U S fascist police state. Such laws are deeply embedded in the attitudes of citizens and judges from generations of indoctrination.
Censorship by government is essentially aggression to establish and maintain a fascist police state. The censorship of the ballot is a prime weapon of fascism.
For further discussion of ballot access censorship and the censorship by sore loser laws: https://govfacts.org/elections-voting/candidates-campaigns/getting-on-ballot/the-hidden-gatekeepers-how-ballot-access-and-sore-loser-laws-shape-your-choices/