[Lnc-business] Joe Scarborough column in today's Washington Post

[David Demarest]

Dear Bill,

 

Thank you for your heartfelt advocacy of electoral reform. I am all for fighting the good fight to improve our electoral system and achieve broad-base Libertarian refulatory relief. You may want to collaborate with two leaders in the electoral reform movement, Larry R. Bradley of Kansas City (larry at thecenterstrikesback.org <mailto:larry at thecenterstrikesback.org> ), (non-partisan) and Libertarian Mike Shannon of Chicago (michael_p_shannon at yahoo.com <mailto:michael_p_shannon at yahoo.com> ), who is fighting the good but uphill fight in the swampland of Illinois politics. But let’s not put the cart before the horse.

 

Reality check: Regulatory relief, including electoral reform, is fighting a losing battle in the face of ever-growing cronyism fostered by our NON-COMPETITIVE governance system. In this scenario, the ‘cart’ is regulatory relief, including electoral reform. The ‘horse’ is governance reform. To make electoral reform and broader regulatory relief a reality, we must reform our governance system to reduce the cronyism that currently has regulatory relief on the ropes.

 

Despite the predations of government, our COMPETITIVE free market minimizes cronyism. Why? Without interference from government, cronyism simply is not competitive in the free market. Let’s rejuvenate our governance by injecting the fresh air of competition that will help make regulatory relief and electoral reform possible.

 

Raising the stakes, history demonstrates that non-competitive governance systems predictably go bankrupt due to cronyism in 100 to 300-year life cycles, if they do not collapse before then due to revolution and failure in expansionist wars. Let’s see now. We are about 250 years down that path. Maybe it is time to put the governance reform horse before the regulatory relief cart with a sense of urgency.

 

Thoughts?

 

~David Pratt

 

May 25-27 2018 Omaha Roads to Freedom UnConvention

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of William Redpath
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 7:18 AM
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Subject: [Lnc-business] Joe Scarborough column in today's Washington Post

 

Opinion | Tuesday’s election proves it: American politics are a disaster <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tuesdays-election-proves-it-american-politics-are-a-disaster/2017/11/09/5ed37e84-c599-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.35ff9f84b6db> 

 



 







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Opinion | Tuesday’s election proves it: American politics are a disaster


Joe Scarborough

The only way to escape the cycle is to break apart the hyperpartisan two-party duopoly.

 

Dear Colleagues:  I am involved in the Libertarian Party not only because I want to live in a libertarian society, but to, as Joe Scarborough puts it, "break apart the hyperpartisan two-party duopoly" that most certainly is a "disaster" for this nation.  Please take three minutes to read this excellent column.  In my opinion, for this to be accomplished, the voting system will need to be changed from the Single Member Plurality rules now in effect.  It's not ballot access, or campaign finance rules, or anything else that relegates the LP and other minor parties to their second class status in the United States.  It's the voting system, and I hope the LP will do more to change those laws that really bind us.  Bill Redpath

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