tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post2055024860511197599..comments2024-03-27T08:39:28.807-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: A Modest Proposal For Judicial Retention ElectionsAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-67234569404440125802010-09-30T13:59:44.216-06:002010-09-30T13:59:44.216-06:00I agree with you and while I might want to tinker ...I agree with you and while I might want to tinker with the specific method (I think removal should include the possibly of a veto of the dismissal by one or both of the other branches of government) I would support your method over the current system. I also think that many more positions should be appointed, such as the CU Board of Regents, Sheriffs, Coroner, Assessor, etc.Mishalakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298261987842548423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-76932389600181336472010-09-27T16:57:04.053-06:002010-09-27T16:57:04.053-06:00Just what the constitution guarantees us, right?
...Just what the constitution guarantees us, right?<br /><br />Seriously, I make it no secret that I am skeptical of direct democracy. <br /><br />Accountability to the popular will is necessary, but the more complicated the tools for providing it are, the less well they work. A system that is supposed to include everyone needs to be simple enough so that everyone can understand their responsibilities in that system.<br /><br />Better a healthy small-r republican government, than a less functional small-d democratic government.<br /><br />Giving voters the power to elect the people who run the system makes it non-authoritarian. But, the marginal benefit of giving voters furthers to micromanage the way that their elected representatives exercise their authority can actually reduce rather than enhance the degree to which the political system is really a democracy in a meaningful sense.<br /><br />The populist and progressive political reforms that put everything to a vote and elected the dog catcher and everyone else failed.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-31397278810788156292010-09-27T16:39:33.054-06:002010-09-27T16:39:33.054-06:00sounds very small-r republicansounds very small-r republicanMichael Malakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10007582156392845677noreply@blogger.com