Thinking beyond the two party system
By: Monday February 15, 2010 11:58 am

I’m not going to pull any punches here. I detest the two party system. I believe that it undermines representative government. It makes our government more responsive to corporations than to citizens. It decreases the chances of progress and it results in many good ideas being shut out of the national political debate.

The limits imposed on this nation by the two party system are slowly leading to its demise. Partisan gridlock in Washington, outright corruption, the absurd difficulty of kicking out incumbents, corporate control of Washington, and the infamous backwardness of many local governments (among /many/ things) are all symptoms of this same disease. And I do not use that language lightly.

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Ballot access reform: the first step in fixing America’s broken political system
By: Monday January 11, 2010 2:57 am

A brief discussion of the need for ballot access reform

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Political reform: Change we can Really believe in
By: Monday January 4, 2010 9:18 am

A brief discussion of the need for fundamental political reform as a pretext for meaningful change

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