Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
In response to my first irregular diary entry, Jim asks the question:
“…perhaps it’s time to stop voting Democrat.
Gall, what do you have in mind?”
Oh, good question.
Yes, and no. I think it’s time to stop accepting the partisan frame of politics. We need to stop looking at politicians according to whether they are Democrats or Republicans, and look at them according to how they vote.
Imagine if we could group politicians according to their votes, right wing or progressive, and then give those groups our own labels, and identify ourselves according which group we feel most affinity with - then work with politicians in that group, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans.
This would have to be a totally grassroots effort to reject the dominant political party framework - going even more alternative than the third party efforts by groups like the Greens.
So, we vote with the group of politicians who votes our interest, and whether they’re Democrats or not is as irrelevant as whether they’re members of the Rotary Club.
What do you think?
I was thinking that you could use something like the resource you’ve developed with your progressive scorecard for the House to do this.
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March 9th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
I like the idea that people could add their own labels as they saw fit.
But that would mean that we would not have control over the process.
Is that ok?
I guess that’s part of the idea.
March 16th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
There are a number of ways to make this work, and I think people could experiment with different labels until one kind of label in particular catches on. That’s how cultural memes work, isn’t it?