On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:27:39 +0200, bgoggin <[email protected]> wrote:
I think the reverse it true. At least in America, people have a visceral
distaste for parties and really want to believe they are the source of
all
political evil, but I believe that the erosion of parties since the 70's
has led to the rise of extremist candidates. Party bosses used to select
more moderate candidates that could appeal across party lines in the
general elections. As candidate selection has become more democratic,
extremists have begun to win. I think this also goes too far with the pox
on both their houses. I think one party in particular has taken the lead
in
reducing issues to misleading slogans, leading to great electoral
success.
That's not a problem of the parties, it's lazy voters.
Sorry to veer so far from Java, but I thought a counterpoint was needed.
I think that there's an increasing distaste for parties in all
democracies. This happens in my country and I see it happening, more or
less, in other european countries. Trying to keep the argument bound to
the topic, it's a problem of problem solving. We elect people to solve
problems that we *can't* solve ourselves. I mean, we could have an opinion
(hopefully an informed one) about problems, but it's not that we'd able to
solve them should we be nominated Prime Minister or President (also
because we can't have an opinion on *all* problems). Politicians are
supposed (should be) people with specific skills and a vision about
solving problems, and we elect them choosing a direction (left or right,
just to simplify). The process that leads to the formation of politicians
should provide skilled people and, looking at the higher profiles, people
with the leadership profile. Something has got broken, because I'm not
seeing politicians with a vision or leadership neither in the USA nor in
Europe for years. For what concerns patents, frankly I can't see it as an
argument that passionate people. I think that less than 1% of people have
an informed opinion on the topic or understand the impact (especially in a
crisis period, where priorities are different). What you'd need is a bunch
of politicians with a vision about the patent problem. Without it, big
corporates and the lobby of lawyers are facilitated in keeping things as
they are. Probably the solution will come at a certain point because it
will lead to such a high damage of the ecosystem that corporates are
forced to change their mind. I think it could happen, but not in the close
future.
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