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

[Ken Moellman]

I'm personally in favor of trying to run an initiative and a smaller state
to try to get instant runoff voting put in place somewhere beyond city
councils.

I do not believe that this necessarily should fall solely on the shoulders
of the libertarian party, however if an opportunity should arise I would
hope that the lp would consider assisting such an effort.

On Nov 10, 2017 1:15 PM, "David Demarest" <dpdemarest at centurylink.net>
wrote:

> Dear Bill,
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> 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), (non-partisan) and Libertarian
> Mike Shannon of Chicago (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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thoughts?
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> ~David Pratt
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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
> *To:* Libertarian National Committee List <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
> *Subject:* [Lnc-business] Joe Scarborough column in today's Washington
> Post
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> 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
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> Joe Scarborough
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> The only way to escape the cycle is to break apart the hyperpartisan
> two-party duopoly.
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> 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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