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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><font face="Arial">.... You can't end FPTP without following its logic and that entails the sort of activism mastered by FairVote....<br>
<br>And it's going to get easier to push for electoral reforms in the coming year thanks to #OWS ....</font></font></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>#OWS embraces consensus logic, the polar opposite of plurality logic. And yet it is succeeding in moving the debate in a way that many things which preceded it did not. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe that cautious reformism is as much of a dead-end as dreamy utopianism. We need to plan to take over the world, because right now the feasible and the necessary are non-overlapping sets. You don't get where we need to go without the tough work of solidarity and consensus (including swallowing your pride); you don't get there by seeing the logic of what precedes you as an inevitable crutch to the future; and you don't get there by over-valuing the sunk costs of past activism. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Jameson</div></div>