I think the country will have to get pretty fed up before a federal Amendment becomes possible, but it's not impossible, and it's certainly more feasible than doing things one state at a time. Realistically, if a couple large blue states converted, the GOP would have little motivation to give up the lock on power it would then have. The same principle applies to dismantling the winner-take-all system for electoral votes. It'll happen all at once, or not at all.
As for "nonviolent resistance" -- that only works if the people you're resisting have a certain level of decency, as when Gandhi resisted the British. Making a gesture of trust to the current batch of Republicans is stupid. Lying and cheating is their standard operating procedure. They lie even to their own allies. If the McCain type Republicans ever manage to rein in their colleagues, then maybe there will be something to talk about.
As for multipartisanship, well, that calls for Approval, or a Condorcet-compliant ranked system such as Definite Majority Choice.
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branchandroot
Re: not much to say
Date: 11 November 2005 16:58 (UTC)As for "nonviolent resistance" -- that only works if the people you're resisting have a certain level of decency, as when Gandhi resisted the British. Making a gesture of trust to the current batch of Republicans is stupid. Lying and cheating is their standard operating procedure. They lie even to their own allies. If the McCain type Republicans ever manage to rein in their colleagues, then maybe there will be something to talk about.
As for multipartisanship, well, that calls for Approval, or a Condorcet-compliant ranked system such as Definite Majority Choice.