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0 pointsJ_Shelby_J1y ago0 comments

I’m a liberal democrat, but it’s clear that one party politics is not tenable. There has to be an option to the status quo that you can vote for to incentivize competency in government. But with the state of national politics it would be almost impossible for a republican to win in most of urban America. So that leaves just primary challengers from within the Democratic Party which is very difficult. So urban political machines have become absolutely rotten with complacency and now the richest zip codes on the planet have trains running on floppy disks.

One option is ranked choice voting.

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wpietri1y ago

I totally agree we need more actual competition, and also agree that national polarization plus a first-past-the-post system makes that unlikely in the near term.

I would also love to see widespread use of RCV, but as a San Franciscan I don't think it has done tons to fix the problem of complacent political machines here, so we're going to have to do more.

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0 pointsJ_Shelby_J1y ago0 comments

One option is ranked choice voting.

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wpietri1y ago

I totally agree we need more actual competition, and also agree that national polarization plus a first-past-the-post system makes that unlikely in the near term.

I would also love to see widespread use of RCV, but as a San Franciscan I don't think it has done tons to fix the problem of complacent political machines here, so we're going to have to do more.

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