I hugely agree that we need electoral reform. But no party is going to make that happen. The best we can do is get electoral reform locally. When enough Americans are exposed to good voting systems then maybe there is a shot.
The other kind of creepy moon shot is if we all become AI hiveminds. The one positive side effect might be people universally knowing as a canonical truth that first past the post can’t work.
No, as long as legal bribery is allowed, they will be able to fend off any attempts at reform. You have to remove their ammunition first. Then they can’t stop FPTP, Health Care, whatever.
Yeah, it’s only just now entertaining the idea of thinking of a concept of a plan to control damage.
Anything short of campaign finance reform and a more progressive system than first-past-the-post voting is just going to become a return to business as usual and putting out escalating dumpster fires without any investment in the future.
To be fair, I don’t think any country can or should be fixed, but this one’s got an especially bad case of corruption that’s stunting it’s political and social growth. There’s always going to be some corruption, but I feel like right now we watching the world series championship of corruption with about 30% of the population zealously cheering it on.
I think any party that doesn’t advocate for electoral reform isn’t going to fix the United States.
I hugely agree that we need electoral reform. But no party is going to make that happen. The best we can do is get electoral reform locally. When enough Americans are exposed to good voting systems then maybe there is a shot.
The other kind of creepy moon shot is if we all become AI hiveminds. The one positive side effect might be people universally knowing as a canonical truth that first past the post can’t work.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
I’ll put Ranked Choice voting vs FPTP above Campaign Finance as being the root of the problem.
No, as long as legal bribery is allowed, they will be able to fend off any attempts at reform. You have to remove their ammunition first. Then they can’t stop FPTP, Health Care, whatever.
If ranked choice was in place, getting the rest resolved would be much more trivial.
Yes, but that has to be done at a state level before national level
Yeah, it’s only just now entertaining the idea of thinking of a concept of a plan to control damage.
Anything short of campaign finance reform and a more progressive system than first-past-the-post voting is just going to become a return to business as usual and putting out escalating dumpster fires without any investment in the future.
To be fair, I don’t think any country can or should be fixed, but this one’s got an especially bad case of corruption that’s stunting it’s political and social growth. There’s always going to be some corruption, but I feel like right now we watching the world series championship of corruption with about 30% of the population zealously cheering it on.