I'd take it a step further and repeal sore loser laws. We need to defang parties. We need to break up the outsized power party central committees have over whom the candidates are. Read George Washington's famous farewell address. When you read what he says about political parties, you'll think he had taken a time machine to witness the insurrection on 1/6/2021.
Thank you for this clear presentation of a solution to our hype-partisan quagmire. I have long thought this would be a helpful direction in which to go. But there is a problem.
Obviously parties that have a lock on their state governments will not support anything like this because they do not want to risk their control and power. Here in Florida, under the direction of Governor DeSantis, our Republican controlled legislature has outlawed any sort of open primary or ranked choice type voting system even for nonpartisan local elections. It will take a ballot initiative to make a constitutional amendment to change that. The threshold for passage here is 60%. Republicans are creating obstacles for ballot initiatives and when they are passed the Republican legislature will make every effort to substitute their interpretation of the amendment for the clear intention of the initiative for which the people voted.
They used to say that states were the laboratories of democracy--- however Florida has become the laboratory of autocracy in preparation for the campaign of Ron DeSantis to become the successor to Donald Trump.
Nevertheless, if enough states move in the direction you have suggested it may reduce some of the partisan constipation we are suffering now.
I agree, party loyalty is a huge problem. I think a run-off election system would be a big help. Primary election with all candidates on the same ballot. Second round the top 3 or 4 vote getters. Third round top 2 vote getters. The winner needs to get over 50% of the vote.
While it seems like an all-party primary forces candidates to address the concerns of the entire electorate, the fact is first-past-the-post and ranked voting schemes undo this potential advantage because you can still easily win without reaching across the aisle. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carrol) recognized this trap in the 1880's, which I've expanded upon with "Negotiated Consensus" see https://gregblonder.medium.com/negotiated-consensus-bfde8bde5a20 NC is an alternative way to decide an election. Vote for your first choice candidate, and if no one reaches a 51% majority, the candidates negotiate (in exchange for policy concessions) to transfer their votes.
when the world socialist website gordon wood has to show that the bunk history is being taught as gospel the left is NOT committed to those good things you say it is.
the right wing is odious, but at least it doesn't make mock trials.
I'd take it a step further and repeal sore loser laws. We need to defang parties. We need to break up the outsized power party central committees have over whom the candidates are. Read George Washington's famous farewell address. When you read what he says about political parties, you'll think he had taken a time machine to witness the insurrection on 1/6/2021.
Thank you for this clear presentation of a solution to our hype-partisan quagmire. I have long thought this would be a helpful direction in which to go. But there is a problem.
Obviously parties that have a lock on their state governments will not support anything like this because they do not want to risk their control and power. Here in Florida, under the direction of Governor DeSantis, our Republican controlled legislature has outlawed any sort of open primary or ranked choice type voting system even for nonpartisan local elections. It will take a ballot initiative to make a constitutional amendment to change that. The threshold for passage here is 60%. Republicans are creating obstacles for ballot initiatives and when they are passed the Republican legislature will make every effort to substitute their interpretation of the amendment for the clear intention of the initiative for which the people voted.
They used to say that states were the laboratories of democracy--- however Florida has become the laboratory of autocracy in preparation for the campaign of Ron DeSantis to become the successor to Donald Trump.
Nevertheless, if enough states move in the direction you have suggested it may reduce some of the partisan constipation we are suffering now.
I agree, party loyalty is a huge problem. I think a run-off election system would be a big help. Primary election with all candidates on the same ballot. Second round the top 3 or 4 vote getters. Third round top 2 vote getters. The winner needs to get over 50% of the vote.
While it seems like an all-party primary forces candidates to address the concerns of the entire electorate, the fact is first-past-the-post and ranked voting schemes undo this potential advantage because you can still easily win without reaching across the aisle. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carrol) recognized this trap in the 1880's, which I've expanded upon with "Negotiated Consensus" see https://gregblonder.medium.com/negotiated-consensus-bfde8bde5a20 NC is an alternative way to decide an election. Vote for your first choice candidate, and if no one reaches a 51% majority, the candidates negotiate (in exchange for policy concessions) to transfer their votes.
I'm a fan of the Center for Election Science, which advocates a single unified primary powered by approval voting:
https://electionscience.org/
you have to be joking.
saying that there's an honesty to history and inclusion is not extent. https://reason.com/2022/03/29/the-1619-project-unrepentantly-pushes-junk-history/?fbclid=IwAR15bAwAkYR78z6CE976j1DmtstfgTU34zBzaWupBeumwBQ4gQlXB67SPP8
when the world socialist website gordon wood has to show that the bunk history is being taught as gospel the left is NOT committed to those good things you say it is.
the right wing is odious, but at least it doesn't make mock trials.
totalitarianism comes form all directions
Something I dont claim absolute novelty for, but might advance the cause
https://open.substack.com/pub/venkatanarayanpendyala/p/beyond-the-scalar-ballot?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web