> If we had Condorcet voting, we would have elected much more reasonable candidates a long time ago. Honestly, I think any voting system with an algorithm more

> If we had Condorcet voting, we would have elected much more reasonable candidates a long time ago. Honestly, I think any voting system with an algorithm more complicated than counting simple votes will just lead to more mistrust and further empower people who want to claim election fraud. They just scream "technical solution to a social problem." I have a feeling there's probably a contradiction at the heart of democratic politics: it needs a broad consensus to be successful, but tends to remove the mechanisms for maintaining the needed consensus amongst the people, and decays to hostile factions which will eventually destroy it.