As the GOP fractures, we have a unique opportunity

[oxbow]

This has been a momentous few weeks. The Wall-street journal, a bastion of conservative editorialism, has published a scathing critique of Bush and the neo-cons' actions re: social security. In nebraska, one of the media darlings of conservative thought has announced he will be supporting independents from now on. The public stands united against the neo-cons on Terri Schiavo's case. Even CNN is running a story on the breakup of the GOP voting bloc today! All across the country, moderate conservatives are discovering that these aren't the people that they voted for, but radicals with an agenda all their own.

Most of these people don't feel like their values are being represented by the democrats, either, so they will be looking for another way. We have an opportunity to bring to the forefront the issue of voting reform at this time. Instant run off voting, or approval voting, offers a way for candidates outside of the GOP and DNC to run against these behemoths, without people feeling like they will be wasting their vote by voting for them. This is the most important thing we can do to break the two-party stranglehold on american politics, and the time is right for action.

Please write a letter to the editor of a conservative paper this week, talking about the benefits of instant run-off voting, and how it can provide a solution to the rut that american politics is in. It will only take one or two high profile media outlets to bring this issue to a fore. We have a unique opportunity at this point in time, and we must take advantage of it.

Go here for more info on approval voting, etc:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/12/13248/089
http://www.approvalvoting.com/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/idol.html?pg=3

I will post my letter to the editor later today after school. Also, if anybody has a letters to the editor email list, please post it here and save us all some trouble. Thanks y'all, and don't stop fighting the good fight!

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[oxbow]

2. shamelessly kicking my own post

Because the issue's too important not to!