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To: snoringbear

Step one would be for each state to organize credible state parties like SNP or the PQ to elect to their state legislators. From there you then start electing members to Congress with no other instructions but to not bring back any federal edicts and to constantly advocate for more autonomy.

Canadians moan about Quebec’s “stubbornness” to protect it’s language and culture but they get the job done and the people there 95% of the time are happy with it.

Eventually each state will have a similar setup. Parties that dont represent some broad spectrum of social causes, but only the interest of the state they are from and maintenance of the constitution between them and the other states. We can then go back to the states appointing Senators. There wont be “majorities” in the House anymore as no state’s party will intertwine with another. States will start voting as complete blocs, maybe as regions on occasions.


82 posted on 11/07/2012 12:50:56 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

Step one would be for each state to organize credible state parties like SNP or the PQ to elect to their state legislators. From there you then start electing members to Congress with no other instructions but to not bring back any federal edicts and to constantly advocate for more autonomy.


Your lips to God’s ears, as the saying goes. However, the problem here in the USA, unlike in Canada, is that both “parties” (and I see the US as a de facto ONE party state, the party having two wings called ‘rats and Pubs) have rigged election laws in all 50 states (and these are state laws, not federal) so well, that it’s very difficult for a real 3rd party to even get on a ballot. Worse still, you have an archaic winner-take-all electoral college that makes voting for a 3rd party presidential candidade (and this person would be the standard bearer for a 3rd party) pointless. So you need two things, one is loosend electoral laws that put 3rd parties on an equal footing with Demopublicans, and the other would be PROPORTIONAL electoral college. I’m not holding my breath for either one of these things.


88 posted on 11/07/2012 1:10:35 PM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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