Richard Winger: US Electoral Reform Update

To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting.  There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas:

CounterPunch: Where is Jesse Ventura When You Need Him? The Public Gets the Government It Tolerates

Where is Jesse Ventura When You Need Him? The Public Gets the Government It Tolerates by ROBERT DAVID STEELE If Jesse Ventura or any true, electable populist candidate reads this and wants to be President, I have a plan to make it so. I ran for President in 2012, accepted as a candidate by the …

Berto Jongman: It’s Official — US an Oligarchy Controlled by 42 People

Six related headlines. Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy (TalkingPointsMemo) Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of or even against the will of the majority of voters. …

Review: Revolution

Russell Brand 5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Intricate, Non-Violent, and Optimistic, November 4, 2014 In relation to the 2,000 plus non-fiction books I have reviewed here at Amazon, this book is brilliant. Normally I would consider giving it four stars for lacking an index and endnotes, obviously needed for the poorly educated morons that …