Comments on: Elect the Dead!

By: Richard Garner

Richard Garner — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:58:36 +0000

Didn’t a bunch of dead people apparently vote for JFK? It would only be fair for live people to vote for the dead in exchange!

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:28:49 +0000

Heck, I wouldn’t mind even live politicians, subject to that condition.

By: Charles H.

Charles H. — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:37:36 +0000

Maybe, like Jeremy Bentham, they could be “present but not voting”?

By: Robert Hutchinson

Robert Hutchinson — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:30:03 +0000

Comedian Lewis Black supports electing Ronald Reagan to office again, which sadly runs into another non-corpse-related Constitutional limitation.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:04:47 +0000

“The platform would be to run candidates for office who pledged not to vote for any legislation, not to sponsor any bills (perhaps other than to repeal laws), and generally not do any of the things that lawmakers do.

If enough anarchists get elected to the house, the legislature would be more or less powerless to enact legislation.”

I believe something like this happened in colonial Pennsylvania. I’ve been thinking about running for City Council on such a platform.

By: Charles H.

Charles H. — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:49:17 +0000

Anarcho-syndicalist folk singer Utah Phillips once announced that he would run for president on the promise that, if elected, he would “shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damned thing.”

By: Comment

Comment — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:46:19 +0000

Alternatively, we could elect plants. (See:Ficus for Congress)

By: PA

PA — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:36:58 +0000

This is actually not that different from an idea I’ve been kicking around for awhile, which is forming an organized political party (i.e. the Anarchist Party). The platform would be to run candidates for office who pledged not to vote for any legislation, not to sponsor any bills (perhaps other than to repeal laws), and generally not do any of the things that lawmakers do.

If enough anarchists get elected to the house, the legislature would be more or less powerless to enact legislation.