The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How principled progressives work with conscientious conservatives.
Disenchanted Republicans should pair up with disenchanted Democrats and both vote for third party or independent candidates they more genuinely want instead of cancelling out each other by voting for each of the two establishment parties. This would siphon off votes by twos from each of the establishment parties.
Overview of an emerging possibility.
Issue No. 26: “The Antidote to a Broken Political System”
In a piece for the Daily Beast Monday, James K. Glassman, former Under Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, made an impassioned – and, in our view, logical – case for a separate online national primary contest to choose a single independent candidate to go up against the Republican and Democratic nominees in the three final presidential debates in the fall of 2016.
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MEMORANDUM
Subject: Electoral Reform Possibilities in 2015 for 2016
UPDATE 2: Refined after second meeting of electoral reform activists.
Full Text & Downloadable Document Below the Fold
Free online, PhD dissertation defended 10 December 2012, 321 pages.
Governance Structures of Free/Open Source Software Development
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American democracy is up for sale, and it’s a warning to us all
By the end of June this year, $388m had been contributed to the campaigns of presidential candidates in 2016
It is imperative in a democracy that those opposed to the government of the day can cherish the prospect of peacefully changing its leaders and its policies. Otherwise the alternatives are some form of violent action, a revolution or a coup.
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Death of a Nation –All Crazy, All Black, All Prisoners
Robert David Steele
Donald Trump, speaking of recent murders, says we do not have a gun problem; we have a mental health problem. As scary as Donald Trump can be in his encouragement of white supremacists who favor “open season” on illegal immigrants,[i] there is a great deal about The Donald that is authentic and relevant to our current situation. He’s right. He has also failed to complete the thought. These are not individual mental health problems; these are part of a national mental health problem. For over a decade I have been sounding the alarm on “cognitive dissonance,” which is what you get when you allow the 1% to screw over 99% of the public at home and abroad, 99% of the time.
Phi Beta Iota: The full survey is interesting in part because it shows the growing proportion of voters who do not believe their votes are counted honestly. The survey also reflects the extremely limited understanding by academics (and media as well as citizens) of the twelve distinct aspects of electoral reform that must be achieved together in order to provide an electoral process with integrity.
Tip of the Hat to Rebecca Wilson (SAVEourVotes.org) and the PEW Trusts.
