The big news this election cycle (the MSM predictably will not cover) is Nevada joining Maine and Alaska to become the third state to declare they’ve had enough of a broken and corrupt two-party duopoly (a voting system based not on majority rule, but plurality rule). Nevada, like Maine and Alaska, has instead adopted Ranked Choice Voting, with an open primary system.
“Voters across America are warming up to the notion of an alternative election system, with the midterms resulting in expansion of ranked-choice voting. And RCV’s proponents head into Thanksgiving feeling good about the state of reform in America”
If you’re wondering how it is Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins survived voting to impeach Trump. It’s because their states have adopted a majority-rules/open-primary system that makes their party affiliation and pandering to “base voters” far less important than their ability to serve ALL of their constituents. The fact is, the best insulation against authoritarianism is not a nebulous messaging strategy to scare America into a one-party system, but reforming the system to allow more choice and mandate a true majority of support. Ranked Choice Voting does these things.
There never Would have been a President Trump if more states had RCV.
Trump would only end up with a total of 44% of the GOP primary vote, but the early primaries were even worse for Trump
-Iowa 25%
-New Hampshire 35%
-South Carolina 33%It would not be until late in the primary process ( New York primaries on April 19th 2016 ) that trump would break 50% in a primary. At that point, Trump was already the presumptive nominee. The overwhelming majority of Republicans wanted “Not Trump”. Put simply; if the GOP used any form of runoff system that require 50% +1 (even in just the first 10 primaries) Donald Trump would likely never have been the GOP nominee.
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The more you learn about RCV the more you’ll understand it’s the achievable answer to fix a broken system. Undoubtedly there will be comments saying “We need to get rid of the electoral college!”.
I’d love to, but notice how I said achievable. The Electoral College is written into the constitution. Implementing RCV can be done without ratification of a constitutional amendment in a state-by-state process.
Stop Saying:
“OUR two-party System”
as if our current system was designed and voted on by the people.
Say Instead:
“The corrupt two-party duopoly we’ve devolved into”
Language matters.
The vast majority of Americans believe partisanship s destroying our country. Over and over the “solutions” presented on MSM boil down to: “look how awful those partisans are! How can we educate them to be partisan in our direction”. Nebulous BS solutions that include phrases like “we got to educate” “We got to reach out” etc. etc. Disagree? Name one systemic policy fix you’ve seen on any MSM news outlet designed to reduce partisanship. Increasingly Americans don’t want to be messaged or pulled to either of the major political parties in the corrupt duopoly we’ve devolved into.
The game in this corrupt duopoly is to stoke fear and “motivate the base” in hopes to eke out an extra 0.25% turnout on “your side”. Now, wouldn’t we get higher participation, and better governance, if there were a real Labor Party bringing people to the polls? If there was a Social Justice Party? If there was an Independent Conservatives party, (in the vein of Adam Kinzinger), giving Trump haters in the GOP an off-ramp at the polls?
Might we see Voter participation in line with every other industrialized democracy? (80-95% instead of our dismal 60-65%)
Get on board the Ranked Choice movement! We are winning the battle to take back a true democracy,
