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These efforts to depolarize the US are well underway
Cnn ^ | Zachary B. Wolf

Posted on 08/21/2022 9:47:09 AM PDT by aquila48

American democracy is changing right now in important and optimistic ways in red and blue states.

Anger at the lack of choices in the two-party system fueled the ranked-choice voting experiment in reliably Republican Alaska, which pairs with a similar experiment in the liberal haven of New York City. In ranked-choice voting, voters rank candidates in order of preference. Learn about the entire process.

There is ranked-choice voting in Maine. There are nonpartisan primaries in California and technically no primary at all in Louisiana.

While political parties are consolidating their power with redistricting in states where they can – Texas and Illinois, for instance – voters, given the chance, often choose to take power away from the parties.

I talked to Nick Troiano, executive director of the nonprofit Unite America Institute, one of a number of state and national groups pushing to overhaul American democracy by taking control of primaries away from political parties.

Our conversation, conducted by phone and edited for flow, is below.

What’s the problem with primaries and democracy? WHAT MATTERS: In a nutshell, what’s wrong with the primary system?

TROIANO: I think the primary system is the biggest solvable problem fueling political polarization today. And that’s because:

First, most of our elections are in safe districts that are effectively decided in primaries. Second, turnout in those primaries is very low. And third, those who do turn out aren’t very representative of the electorate as a whole. And so, therefore, candidates and elected officials are rewarded for pandering to their base and punished for reaching across the aisle to solve problems.

Why do nonpartisan primaries help? WHAT MATTERS: Your group pushes nonpartisan primaries. Why do those solve the problem, if you’re still relying on a small subset of voters in a primary?

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1 posted on 08/21/2022 9:47:09 AM PDT by aquila48
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Another “non-partisan” ploy by the Rats to dominate the field of candidates?


2 posted on 08/21/2022 9:51:21 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: aquila48

Killing off your enemies is a great way to “depolarize”.


3 posted on 08/21/2022 9:52:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aquila48

Rank choiced voting and runoffs suck.


4 posted on 08/21/2022 9:57:02 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: aquila48
These efforts to depolarize the US are well underway

These efforts to permanently Fix the US Elections are well underway.

5 posted on 08/21/2022 9:57:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: aquila48
American democracy is changing right now in important and optimistic ways

What happened to saving "Our Democracy?" Must it be killed in order to be saved?

6 posted on 08/21/2022 9:57:32 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: aquila48

Unite America Under Mob Rule!


7 posted on 08/21/2022 9:59:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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“Depolarize”

Conditioning

One rule

One World Order

Babel

Nimrod

Antichrist

Mark


8 posted on 08/21/2022 10:00:34 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors)
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Rank choice voting is nothing more than a mathmatical cheat to fool the moderatly aware


9 posted on 08/21/2022 10:00:47 AM PDT by Skwor
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It’s working wouldn’t you say?


10 posted on 08/21/2022 10:03:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: aquila48

Just curious. Has Alaska announced the results of its ranked-choice election yet?


11 posted on 08/21/2022 10:04:42 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Skwor

Agree.


12 posted on 08/21/2022 10:05:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: aquila48

Depolarize = one-party rule.


13 posted on 08/21/2022 10:07:01 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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Has Alaska announced the results of its ranked-choice election yet?

Yes, Ukraine Won.

14 posted on 08/21/2022 10:07:21 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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These efforts to permanently Fix the US Elections are well underway.


Democrat Party, having gained total control of the US election System in 2020, the upcoming 2022 election will cement some of the finer points while adding a wrinkle here and there; the 2024 election will polish the apple, so to speak, making any further elections totally unnecessary.


15 posted on 08/21/2022 10:08:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: aquila48

Until the arrogance of urban enclaves dissipates, there is no end of this polarization in sight. There are smart people on every corner in America, and there are delusional and ignorant people on every street and in every high rise in Manhattan. America is about individuality, not wannabe ‘superiors’ telling everyone else how to think.


16 posted on 08/21/2022 10:09:40 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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The GloboHomoNazi Democrat Party, having gained total control of the US election System in 2020, the upcoming 2022 election will cement some of the finer points while adding a wrinkle here and there; the 2024 election will polish the apple, so to speak, making any further elections totally unnecessary.

There, fixed it for you, and you may be right.

We'll just have to wait and see if American Patriots can DeGloboHomoNazify America before 2024.

17 posted on 08/21/2022 10:20:01 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: neverevergiveup

Agree.


18 posted on 08/21/2022 10:21:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Another “non-partisan” ploy by the Rats to dominate the field of candidates?

Rats and RINOs. Effect will be even RINO candidates will be #2 for many rats along with #1 for RINO voters, preventing an America-first candidate who might have won a primary from doing well in an election, perhaps even without the assistance of fraud to keep that candidate down. Every candidate will be catering to the left-leaning masses as influenced by the mainstream media and multinational interests, the new one party platform to replace the two party system.

19 posted on 08/21/2022 10:25:05 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Navy Patriot
These efforts to permanently Fix the US Elections are well underway.

Indeed. What were once "progressive" experiments are now desperate anti-MAGA maneuvers.

20 posted on 08/21/2022 10:27:57 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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