Comments on: The media blackout of Ralph Nader http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2008/08/02/the-media-blackout-of-ralph-nader/ Andrew J. Montalenti's Blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: pixelmonkey http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2008/08/02/the-media-blackout-of-ralph-nader/#comment-25669 pixelmonkey Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:50:00 +0000 http://www.pixelmonkey.org/?p=372#comment-25669 Hi Rodger, thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, I have come to believe that fighting for votes for Nader is a difficult preposition in our broken plurality electoral system. I am going to do a series of forthcoming blog posts on the concept of Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV for short), a discussion of which can be found on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting You can also see a wonderful 3-minute animation that explains the concept and the problems it solves here: http://www.fairvote.org/?page=2303 I'd be interested to hear your opinion of this idea. It clearly can't help us in this election, but in future elections it might just bring 3rd parties onto the national landscape, and broaden the debate away from the two-party dichotomy. Hi Rodger, thanks for the comment.

Unfortunately, I have come to believe that fighting for votes for Nader is a difficult preposition in our broken plurality electoral system. I am going to do a series of forthcoming blog posts on the concept of Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV for short), a discussion of which can be found on Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

You can also see a wonderful 3-minute animation that explains the concept and the problems it solves here:

http://www.fairvote.org/?page=2303

I’d be interested to hear your opinion of this idea. It clearly can’t help us in this election, but in future elections it might just bring 3rd parties onto the national landscape, and broaden the debate away from the two-party dichotomy.

]]> By: Rodger http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2008/08/02/the-media-blackout-of-ralph-nader/#comment-25636 Rodger Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:02:41 +0000 http://www.pixelmonkey.org/?p=372#comment-25636 The same people, hiding behind their corporate shields and who feed at the corporate welfare trough are pouring financing into McCain and Obama campaigns. These same people, who are profiteers from the Iraqi War, the subprime mortgage scams, the oil scams and who have wealth so massive they can't even count it, are heavy media advertisers. So it is easy for them to pile propaganda in heaps through the media upon the american people. I only hope that americans will see through this massive propaganda and vote for a man who has spent decades working on their behalf. I hope they don't vote for the two puppets in the corporate owned Republican and Democrat puppet parties, who have spent decades screwing them over. If they don't "throw away their vote", then, they will be real Americans. Rather than spineless americans so focused on their material wealth, who don't even realize that their is a massive redistribution of wealth, right out of their pockets. The same people, hiding behind their corporate shields and who feed at the corporate welfare trough are pouring financing into McCain and Obama campaigns. These same people, who are
profiteers from the Iraqi War, the subprime mortgage scams, the oil scams and who have wealth so massive they can’t even count it, are heavy media advertisers. So it is easy for them to pile propaganda in heaps through the media upon the american people.

I only hope that americans will see through this massive propaganda and vote for a man who has spent decades working on their behalf. I hope they don’t vote for the two puppets in the corporate owned Republican and Democrat puppet parties, who have spent decades screwing them over. If they don’t “throw away their vote”, then, they will be real Americans. Rather than spineless americans so focused on their material wealth, who don’t even realize that their is a massive redistribution of wealth, right out of their pockets.

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