The political process
AC:
Our system is rigged against independents and third parties. A third party isn’t even allowed to be identified on the ballot. An individual libertarian may not be able to campaign and get his name out but people still know what a libertarian is. If they were listed by party, people would know SOMETHING about that candidate.
He concludes:
Everything — to the two parties. To the people, nothing.
Ayup.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
What I hate is the way courts have consistently held that the two parties are allowed to make laws whose sole purpose is to protect the two-party system, even if it makes third party viability virtually impossible.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:24 am
BH, maybe that’s because most judicial elections are partisan, so the judges are in on the game. Maybe not, but it has to figure somehow.
July 21st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
That includes appointed federal judges, i.e. Supreme Court judges, who are tenured for life. At that point, it’s not self interest, it’s just stupidity.