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> As long as we don’t have ranked choice voting ... we will continue to vote in the servants of the billionaire class. I don't think RCV would do much to chang
by breuleux 1y ago
> As long as we don’t have ranked choice voting ... we will continue to vote in the servants of the billionaire class.
I don't think RCV would do much to change that. In order to be elected, you need to be seen, so you need a sizeable media presence. The billionaire class controls enough of the media (traditional, social and "independent") that the people will keep voting for their servants under pretty much any voting system, bar a few exceptions here and there. It's a fundamental issue of electoral democracy, not of the voting system.
One potential alternative would be to switch to non-electoral democracy, e.g. drawing representatives at random rather than electing them, but that's even less likely to happen, and it may end up having different problems. At least it'd suppress all the circus around elections and all that party nonsense, so there's that.