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The USA's problem is the voting system. Currently, it favors extremism eg try to get the nomination in primaries saying another side is actually ok. Change syst
by antupis 7y ago
The USA's problem is the voting system. Currently, it favors extremism eg try to get the nomination in primaries saying another side is actually ok. Change system something like ranked-choice voting and you get nominees literally singing kumbaya together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJKh_CwPI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJKh_CwPI4 .
- remarkEon 7y ago>Currently, it favors extremism eg try to get the nomination in primaries saying another side is actually ok. This is just flat out wrong, and I think you might be conflating what could be interpreted as a "purity spiral" on the left right now as "normal". It is most certainly not normal. The 2016 Dems nominated the most centrist candidate in a generation (at least), and Trump managed to win the general by essentially playing the game better in the Electoral College. Even if I accepted your premise for a moment (I don't, in reality) that ranked-choice voting actually pushes candidates into aligning with each other ideologically, to the extent it makes them less detested by their ostensible political opponents, it is not at all clear that this is an optimum outcome. Especially in times of political turmoil - and I don't think it's controversial to suggest that we are in one right now a la the 1970s - a "regression to the mean" of choice in political candidates seems to be the exact opposite of a good idea. That just spells "status quo" for electoral outcomes, and would cause many (or most) to lose faith in the political system all together.