Electoral College reform

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jan 16 19:40:05 PST 2002


J Cullen wrote:
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>
> So you have to figure out how to convince Democrats that it is in
> their interest to support electoral reforms in a way that does not
> allow the election of Republicans in the meantime.
>

This assumes that Democrats and Republicans have significantly conflicting interests, which is false. Their conflicts are strictly secondary, not matters of principle. They share fundamentally a major principle: keeping the public out of politics. They "compete" only within that framework of a pacified public.

They may someday agree to electoral reforms -- but that will only be for one or two reasons: (a) as a way of calming massive public disturbances or (b) because they have worked out reforms with protections against enhanced public participation.

Carrol



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