Not Invited to the Party

I just finished the book "Not Invited to the Party" by James T. Bennett, Eminent Scholar and William P Snavely Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at George Mason University and Director of The John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy.

The book shows how federal, state, and local governments have enacted laws, regulations, and subsidies that discriminate in favor of the Democratic and Republican parties and virtually prohibit challenges by independent parties and candidates.

For an independent activist it was a good read but I was disappointed in his lack of reporting certain activists' attempts in the last 15 years to pursue structural political reform of the political process.

The Afterword was written by William Redpath, Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee in Washington, DC. He talks about possible reforms, like:

Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and Initiative & Referendum (I&R)

and ends with:

"Electorial reform will eventually come to the United States. It will be a mult-decade process that the two older parties will fight tooth and nail. But, when that electoral reform does occur, the American people will have finally thrown off the yoke of the two older parties that is impeding our progress as a people."

Michael H. Drucker
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