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i support most of these, but i would also like to see the election cycle for president made shorter. the last cycle was 2 years long. by the end, it was an exercise in sustained mediocrity---particularly at the level of the press coverage, which i found appalling.
and i've liked a feature of the french system since i encountered it: 3 days before the vote, ALL political advertisement connected to the campaign stops. the assumption seems to be--now you've seen the adverts and gathered actual information. voting requires some deliberation. deliberation takes a bit of time. the gap assumes people are actually making up their minds. so they're thinking, not reacting. something about that assumption seems very far indeed from that which you can see at work in the current american system. it makes voting seem like a dignified act and not a response to consumer stimulii.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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