This is a really good and necessary analysis - it is good to know the damage that has been done to the American Experiment. I believe the current system of primaries is to blame, under the current system. In most primaries, it ids the most dedicated and often extreme voters who participate, and that tends to skew toward the more extreme …
This is a really good and necessary analysis - it is good to know the damage that has been done to the American Experiment. I believe the current system of primaries is to blame, under the current system. In most primaries, it ids the most dedicated and often extreme voters who participate, and that tends to skew toward the more extreme candidates and positions (helped of course by the likes of Fox News and One America). If we are to hold primaries from now on, we must find a way to eliminate the really dangerous zealots by broadening the field as much as possible. Ranked-choice voting in primaries would go a long way to restoring a sense of the middle in our elections, as would open primaries in which members of both parties AND independent voters would vote in a general primary to arrive at the candidates running in the general election. Our current path promises only further division.....
This is a really good and necessary analysis - it is good to know the damage that has been done to the American Experiment. I believe the current system of primaries is to blame, under the current system. In most primaries, it ids the most dedicated and often extreme voters who participate, and that tends to skew toward the more extreme candidates and positions (helped of course by the likes of Fox News and One America). If we are to hold primaries from now on, we must find a way to eliminate the really dangerous zealots by broadening the field as much as possible. Ranked-choice voting in primaries would go a long way to restoring a sense of the middle in our elections, as would open primaries in which members of both parties AND independent voters would vote in a general primary to arrive at the candidates running in the general election. Our current path promises only further division.....
All solid points.
I think ranked choice voting would be the single most effective thing we could do to moderate our politics.