Libs & Progressives = Natural Allies... Why Let The SYSTEM Drive Us Apart? [View All]

[ZombieGak]

Liberals and Progressives... and where some draw that line may differ, should be natural allies in most issues. Yet reading some of the threads here many harbor great animus towards Nader because of 2000.

I see this animus based in one simple fact... that our sense of democracy has become warped by our dysfunctional electoral/political systems. In a democracy citizens should have the simple right to run for office on issues they believe in... and citizens have a right to vote their conscience for whomever they please. That is NOT our system. Ours is an antiquated system rejected by most of the world's democracies. They have introduced modern election concepts that better measure the will of the people and political systems that better reflect that will... reforms such as proportional representation and instant run-off voting. These systems have the added advantage in boosting voter participation because they simply are more responsive to the public. In contrast in the 1990s, the US ranked 140 out of 163 in voting participation

So when will we here in the US wake up and realize it's the SYSTEM that is the problem... not Libs or Progressives?