[EM] party co-operation on electoral reform

[Joe Weinstein]

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




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