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Shawn Levasseur Photo by Avens O’Brien “Who am I? Why am I here?” – James Stockdale I’ll answer the latter question first. I’m running to be the Libertarian National Committee’s Secretary to: Build back the professionalism that we once had in the national party. Build back the trust of the membership. Promote transparency and civility […]
So, for the umpteenth* time, I’m redesigning my blog. This time, however, I’m dropping the “ComicsPundit” brand. It was created at a time when I thought I could focus on the intersection of two of my passions. But I was all over the place, sometimes comics, sometimes politics, sometimes both, sometimes something completely different. So, […]
I forget how I came across it, but I was recently engrossed in [this article about term limits for the Supreme Court, “A Better System for Appointing Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court” by Andrew Johnson.][1]
[1]: https://medium.com/@andrjohn751/a-better-system-for-putting-judges-on-the-u-s-supreme-court-bce9962ef0eb
I have some detailed thoughts on it,
Seth Godin wrote about third parties in a blog post “Ketchup and the third-party problem“. He says that those of us supporting third parties or their candidates are doomed to failure, and miss our chance to really influence the political field.
Needless to say, I find the arguement lacking, and merely a more passive aggressive method of saying that we should all vote for Hillary because otherwise we’ll be doomed with Trump. I’ve snarked about it on Twitter. But I feel this deserves a bit more detailed of a rebuttal.