As the last half of the 20th Century got under way the was a drive to awaken the political consciousness of the masses.
To in a few words give
Power to the People.
There also seemed oddly enough an unspokne assumption that in turn for this boon the masses would
Do what their betters told them to do,.
After all the masses NEEDED the intelligentsia, to Guide them
It was a great shock to our self proclaimed leaders when many of the masses decided to think for themselves and make their own choices.
That lapse of appreciation by the masses has been the impetus for attempts at corrective action for the 50 or 60 years since then.
There are continual attempts to fine tune how things are done so that decisions are made by the "right" people.
The Linn County Central Committee is a csse in point.
I understand that there is a adhoc committee looking at redoing the By Laws to allow proportional representation based on the last major elections.
Johnson County has such a system.
But for some reason there is resistance to using their method
It seems that it might allow too many people to become members of the LCRCC?
That's a Problem?
Why do we have membership drives then?
The rationale is because we have contention with the small amount of members attending meetings now and they are afraid that more members, I heard a potential fo 350 or so would make this worse.
What we are seeing is what I consider faux logic based on faulty assumptions,
Yes we have right now about 40 or so voting members at meetings.
Yes we have contenion
Yes we have seen contention before.
No when we have seen contention before it was not a result of large numbers at the meetings
A few years back we had sometimes 200 + attending,.
We have 86 precincts a maxium of 172 committee persona plus assistants.
The meetings went smoothly, we had no problem paying for anything, our funtions were roaring sucesses.
What has made the difference?
Whenc might the contention come from?
Well the Committee is pretty much the same but the Leadership has changed.
You tell me.
If we go to REAL proportional representation it might be a little bit harder for those who want to control every single aspect of the LCRCC to be sucessful.
They would be smaller fish in a bigger pool
What is wrong with that?
Updated: Tuesday, 23 June 2015 3:29 AM CDT
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