So I'm trying to convince Dylan to run for SGA president again (with little seriousness in the campaign). When the prospect of collecting 500 signatures became too much, I thought of another tactic. Form an exploratory committee, never actually declare candidacy, and instead bank on independent coverage and outlandish use of his column to get write-in votes.
It amuses me. Because every year I've been here, the composition of parties has been about thus...
1. Fairly traditional party
2. The generic change party
3. The progressive party.
It's a pretty boring dynamic. Pretty predictable. The progressive party had my attention last year, Students for a Just University, mainly because I knew a bunch of people working and running for them, right up to the vice-presidential candidate. I ended up voting for them, but I didn't really support everything they were standing for... it was mainly charisma and who I thought deserved the seat on a Senate whose role is either diliatory or advisory.
I just like the idea of satirizing the process.
2 comments:
1) I'd love to see Dylan "run" for SGA again. That was really great last year.
2) At least in SGA elections, we have more than two parties with some chance of winning. I don't think the progressive party has won any major positions since I've been at UT, but I'm pretty sure they've gotten some spots in the Senate.
1) Yes. I really feel like he'd deserve it, even...
2) Oh, yes, they've gotten some Senate spots, and they've also gotten a respectable chunk of the vote... and the people they're getting to vote are those that would otherwise be disinclined to do so... which, in terms of any election, is good.
If only the national organizations would learn that. Not that they can help it too much. A lack of choice is going to happen in a system predicated on two main choices. Vanilla or chocolate. Cream vanilla or vanilla with a hint of strawberry. Chocolate truffle or chocolate cookie. When what America needs is orange sherbet, or a swirl, or... someone that takes the good ideas on both sides. And eats them.
I'll be getting some ice cream now...
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