Here's basically seconding Mike O.: In terms of the substantive messages from today's parties, my political mix rates close to 3/4 Green, 1/4 Libertarian !! (By way of comparison, what substantive messages are we getting from either of the big two parties?) But how can the Libertarians (or any minority party) pretend to be 'for real' in electoral politics without being keenly interested in reforming the unfairly antagonistic electoral rules? and therefore being ready and indeed eager for common action with other victims of these rules?
Mike speaks of electoral reform to get 'adequate democracy'. By way of caution, in my opinion 'adequate democracy' will not follow just from having even an excellent mass-election method. The better and eventual expedient is a true democracy in which no citizens are 'more equal than others': wherein decisions will not require mass elections at all, because they will be made not by special long-term-serving (and therefore readily corruptible) oligarchic officers (elected or otherwise) but by deliberations of short-term-serving randomly chosen problem-solving teams (or 'juries' or 'panels' or 'seminars') of ordinary citizens. Joe Weinstein Long Beach CA USA PS FOR MIKE - My Hotmail email program advises me that currently your Hotmail inbox is overflowing, and that therefore I am disallowed from sending you directly a copy of this message. I hope that somehow you can soon clear your Hotmail inbox, or start up an alternative channel! Joe _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
