Jan 14, 2012

MoneyPolitics!




I just watched the movie MoneyBall last night.
I have also read on Wikipedia about the book
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.
It seems that so long as only one team 
gamed the system by the numbers
that it was golden for them,
but when everyone tried to do the same, 
it was nowhere near as effective.

Moneyball is like Monsanto.
We can let the numbers dictate
what we do for an immediate gain,
at the risk of long-term catastrophe,
but we can be certain that 
there will be change.

Analogously, I've recommended for
America's Third Party
to game the system.
Here's what I wrote for Sarah Hart.
 I do think it'd be better if you and David [Sponheim] made a point of how flawed our Electoral College System is by gaming it thru trying to register on the ballot in only competitive states and committing to maybe calling on your supporters to vote strategically on the day before the election....
Third parties have got to stop 
playing the game of politics
as if they were the NY Yankees!!!

We gotta Game the Game
to Change the Game,
which is also what third parties majoring on 
American forms of Proportional Representation would do!
dlw

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