That is the doofus' own photo from Muckrack.com.
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 ...
Ranked voting AKA rigged voting. CNN is praising it, all you need to know.
Most conservatives are happy with more than one possible next president, whereas democrats aren’t happy with what they have now and see no promising successors.
But it’s a battle over ideas.
It’s never about ideas, it’s always about power.
“Another “non-partisan” ploy by the Rats to dominate the field of candidates?”
Want to freak the rats out? Vote by county for Senate and President. County with most votes gets one point. Most points in the state wins the electoral vote. For congress, it’s two terms and goodbye and there is no lifetime pension and medical benefits.
“It’s never about ideas, it’s always about power.”
With politicians, mostly power or for most falling line with their leadership. With voters it’s mostly ideas.
Voters have the ultimate power by definition in this country.
By definition, maybe, but that's not the reality.
To them, ‘de-polarizing’ means censoring opposing points of view or forcing people at the point of a gun to shut up.
That is the doofus' own photo from Muckrack.com.
End open primaries. Period.
Also stuff jungle voting and ranked voting into the nether regions of history.
“One ring to rule them and in the darkness bind them”
Most new words requiring a prefix or a suffix are created by collectivists.
Communists have always ensured “depolarization” wherever they’ve gotten power. It’s called “murder” to everyone else.
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