Tim Rutten has this column in the February 5 issue of the Los Angeles Times, on nationwide voter discontent with both major parties, with Congress, and with the Presidency.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Tim Rutten has this column in the February 5 issue of the Los Angeles Times, on nationwide voter discontent with both major parties, with Congress, and with the Presidency.
The column can also be reached through the paper’s own Website:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten6-2010feb06,0,1034960.column
Thank you, John Anthony. I had done an improper link but it is now fixed.
I can be unhappy with a former lover and yet not connected to a new partner.
As some one whom has been dissatisfied with the Democans and the Republicrats since 1960 I think the formula for change is not simple. Ya gotta have repulsion from the old behavior, ya gotta have attraction to the new behavior, and time to process both ……….
Meh, voters have been “dissatisfied” with both major parties for years, yet somehow they keep voting for them.
If there’s so much dissatisfaction with the duopoly now is time to change some state constitutions to get state legislatures elected via PR. This should be doable in states that have initiative and referendum. Examples throughout the world show that PR results in multi-party systems.
Once a party has a bloc of state legislators it has credibility it can use to advance to more important offices.