iDrafted discussion: Election Reform: Candidate Selection

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Election Reform: Candidate Selection

In #Election2016, I ran a virtual campaign for President as an Independent. Originally this was a meant as a test of our electoral system (to further future Independent campaigns generally). As the 2016 campaign season progressed, I realized that practically anyone (including me) was a better candidate than those being offered (on all sides) as serious candidates.

At the time of the 2016 campaign season, my wife and I were caring for my mother (who had a 16+ year battle with Dementia) as she entered her final days...

As the real need for serious candidates became clearer, my perspective on duty to serve sharpened and my wife and I committed a great deal to actually seek the Libertarian Party's nomination. What we found is that even the L.P. fails in the candidate selection process.

Libertarian ideas support free markets and there is effectively no free market for candidates to rise (in any major party).

How do we change this???

I have some ideas based on actual experience but a crowd-sourced solution will certainly be better.

I built this platform (iDrafted.org) as media and communication is almost certainly the foundation of any reform solution. As this website is now limping along (in early beta), I invite all comers to contribute to a solution for this very real problem.

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by Joey Berry

This website is built on Freedom. Right now that freedom is fairly black and white. You have the freedom to post as a guest whether you are logged in or not.

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by Joey Berry

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Free Market for Candidates
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Free Market for Candidates

Free Markets work.

At one time communities were small enough for people to actually know each other (and for the selection of candidates to be more natural)...

I suspect any real reform of our candidate selection process will involve empowering the most direct/local contacts to draft and/or support "good" candidates (and to screen out "bad" candidates).

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by Joey Berry

I suspect community is the key to election reform generally and candidate selection specifically. However, it may be virtual community (which reflects people we associate with by choice rather than by proximity)...

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This is an area to post general suggestions about election reform and candidate selection.

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