Democracy In Connecticut

Many on the left have been complaining about Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an independent after losing in the Democrats' primary. (Those on the right are mostly sitting back and smiling.) I'm no fan of Joe, but their complaints go too far.

Look at this editorial by David Sirota. He accuses Lieberman of "undemocratic chicanery" and says "he's behaving like a Third World autocrat."

I see--hurting Democrats hurts democracy.

Partisans forget our two-party system is not part of nature, like molecules and gravity. Heck, it's not even in our Constitution. Democrats and Repulicans alone deciding who the public can choose, that's undemocratic chicanery.