The problem with elections is that the incumbents always win.
If not the present incumbents, then the future incumbents.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
How about those anarcho-syndicalists that want recallable, directly elected leaders and a new election every 2 weeks?
Why not every 2 hours?
I suppose since the period is less than the time it takes to organize an election nobody would ever be elected!
Back when I voted, I always voted against the incumbents. Maybe there was just something about the word “incumbent” that stuck in my craw. Heck, I even had an “Incumbents are the problem! Vote them all out!” bumper sticker. Ah, the foolishness of youth…
“The trouble with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots.”