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?
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Another “non-partisan” ploy by the Rats to dominate the field of candidates?
Killing off your enemies is a great way to “depolarize”.
Rank choiced voting and runoffs suck.
These efforts to permanently Fix the US Elections are well underway.
What happened to saving "Our Democracy?" Must it be killed in order to be saved?
Unite America Under Mob Rule!
“Depolarize”
Conditioning
One rule
One World Order
Babel
Nimrod
Antichrist
Mark
Rank choice voting is nothing more than a mathmatical cheat to fool the moderatly aware
It’s working wouldn’t you say?
Just curious. Has Alaska announced the results of its ranked-choice election yet?
Agree.
Depolarize = one-party rule.
Yes, Ukraine Won.
These efforts to permanently Fix the US Elections are well underway.
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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.
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.
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.
Agree.
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.
Indeed. What were once "progressive" experiments are now desperate anti-MAGA maneuvers.
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