Showing posts with label two party system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label two party system. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2020

Hospital Radio.

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We've been listening to Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, for much of this blog's existence. ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Stuff 'em all: Republicans AND Democrats enabled the PPP chain-feeding bailout debacle.

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Spare me. If you're an indie operator rushing to perform fellatio on Shake Shack -- a $1.6 billion company -- for returning the PPP...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: It's a tad premature to sing the healing game.

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Fear is an incompetent teacher. -- Jean-Luc Picard I don't make it a habit to quote from science fiction, or for that matter tel...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Dan Canon with electoral prescience: "What do you think you can win by starting with your compromise number?"

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In the latest installment of THE UNFUCKING OF THE MIDWEST (at LEO ), Dan Canon explains a phenomenon that I always thought should be obv...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Reich: "Democrats cannot defeat authoritarian populism without an agenda of radical democratic reform, an anti-establishment movement."

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"I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our dis...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Enough Absurdity: "Neoliberal globalization and Third Way politics are plainly not up to the task, and the historical Left has, for the most part, gone missing."

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"After almost three years of Trumpian rule, it has come to this. The worst American president ever, along with a bunch of embarrassi...
Friday, December 06, 2019

In Britain's elections, as in American ones: We'll awake "to find one of these horrors in charge."

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Photo credit: The Economist article. I was asked, "How is Donald Trump viewed throughout your travels?" To be honest, it d...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

"Deval Patrick Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Democratic Party."

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"Maybe five or ten years ago, Deval Patrick might have been the best Democrat that our dismal system could have produced. But that’s...
Monday, February 11, 2019

#FreeDistrict3: Is a two-party political duopoly "fit for the purpose of representing and reconciling the diversity of opinions in a modern and complex country?"

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This article is about the Conservative and Labour parties in Great Britain, but the parallels with Republicans and Democrats in America a...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The Strong Towns no-gimmicks approach truly is a "third way" for the city of New Albany because it crosses political boundaries.

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Tony Beard drew this. "Out there is someone who maybe disagrees with you on politics, but that person has a shared vision with you...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Save your Darwinian drivel for another time, and urge Senators Young and Braun, and Representative Hollingworth, to be accountable to their constituents.

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Fact is, 800,000 unpaid federal workers are being held hostage not by one man, but by America's wretched two-party system. In any oth...
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Saturday, April 07, 2018

Choosing between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos is like the choice of Pabst or High Life. It's no choice at all.

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Center of the target. Trump's enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn't defend Amazon , by Thomas Frank ( The Guardian ) Wh...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Democrats complete the Sanders purge, thus remaining dead to me.

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 The Democrats remain dead to me, and the Republicans are dead to me, too. A grand total of two types of soup on offer, and me with my for...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

"A debate between Clinton, Trump, Johnson, and Stein would represent an even greater improvement."

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The argument for debate inclusion is simple, logical, and accessible to even the most partisan among you; the 15% poll threshold is purel...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Henderson ethics, schMETHics: Matt Oakley challenges the Floyd County power duopoly. Matt Oakley loses. Turn the page.

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On Tuesday evening, county government's entertainment cauldron threatened to approach full boil. It didn't, and the crisis of adul...
Friday, July 22, 2016

WITHIN CITY LIMITS: Episode X, A Look Ahead to 2019.

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WITHIN CITY LIMITS: Episode X, A Look Ahead to 2019. By Nick Vaughn, Guest Columnist My past few articles have been about national pol...
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Two entrenched political parties are the problem, not the solution.

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Photo capriciously cribbed from the interwebz. It's a long read, and worth it. We've already had lengthy discussions on socia...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

The Baylor for Mayor meme, November 3: Election Day and a few words from Drew Curtis.

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Drew Curtis, founder of Fark.com and a candidate for the governor of Kentucky, offers an excellent essay about what he's learned on t...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Baylor for Mayor meme, October 14: Ideas, not political party machines.

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From August 14, 2015: ON THE AVENUES: It’s time to purge two-party politics and tie the community together.
Friday, August 14, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: It’s time to purge two-party politics and tie the community together.

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ON THE AVENUES: It’s time to purge two-party politics and tie the community together. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. I’m runn...