You have a lot of excellent points.
As far as “taking back the party”: when you have a system of participatory control with few people participating, each additional person that DOES participate has a helluva lot of leverage.
I have observed this even at our local level. One fiscally responsible voice at a school board meeting goes a long way. Just about everyone else there is a special-interest voice, looking for a “gimmee”.
This is a good, thought provoking discussion and I hate to cut it off but I have to get to work to pay my tax burden! :-)
Thanks, I'm glad somebody thinks so ;)
As far as “taking back the party”: when you have a system of participatory control with few people participating, each additional person that DOES participate has a helluva lot of leverage.
I have observed this even at our local level. One fiscally responsible voice at a school board meeting goes a long way. Just about everyone else there is a special-interest voice, looking for a “gimmee”.
That is so true. That's part of the problem to date with the Party in my county. We have 49 precincts - each of whose chairman gets a seat on the county Executive Committee, in addition to the actual elected county EC officials (Chair, Vice, Treasurer, Secretary, etc.). So, there should be up to something like 55 members on the county EC. As of right now, there are like 10, and they've been in there forever and have gone country club. That's going to change in less than a week, if all goes well.
This is a good, thought provoking discussion and I hate to cut it off but I have to get to work to pay my tax burden! :-)
Yeah, I hear that, we gotta work so President 0bama can turn up that thermostat!