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Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in NYC Mayor's Race, But Top Democrats Still Won't Back Him
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Election reform is the greatest issue of our time. Ranked choice voting or similar will fix this party allegiance nonsense.
Second is money in politics. Politicians across the spectrum conspiring against the people in the name of their donors.
Fix these 2 problems and everything else will trickle down.
Yeah. I read a pretty good article that made the case for downplaying political parties as the unit of power entirely, and focusing on unions built and operated by the workers as the primary method of organizing and batching up power in elections. It was a lot more that way in the middle of the 20th century and definitely things were a fuck of a lot better back then.
It does make sense that if you make a specific class of people whose job is wield and collect power, and nothing in particular else, then they'll become fuckheads over time.
Important to remember that this kind of system can and will have problems of its own aplenty; unions can turn bad, too. Still, I agree it'd almost certainly be better than what we have now, low a bar as that is.
Yeah. I think most of the issue is that when things get easy, people turn complacent, and the rot comes in. But having it connected in some theoretical sense to people's coworkers (and in particular having their politics-people fighting for their economic rights against a clear villain on a day-to-day basis, instead of just jetting around Washington doing God knows what) does seem like a baseline improvement.
Also, Things are about to get super fucking hard and probably stay that way for quite a while, so we definitely won't have that complacency problem going forward.
NYC Mayoral Race uses Ranked Choice Voting.
ehhh...sort of. they use a half-assed version of it, in a way that's very common for RCV implementations in the US.
the Democratic primary used RCV to select the Democratic nominee. the Republicans didn't bother with a primary and nominated Curtis Sliwa.
the general election reverts back to first-past-the-post, with a Democrat, a Republican, and two independents (Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo).
And look, the Democratic primary produced an actual wildly popular candidate.
Personally I think STAR is better than RCV, but I do think the correlation between RCV primary and great outcome is notable.
Oh my yes score voting is probably my fav single seat method that remains fairly simple.
Oh my bad. I was under the impression the GE used RCV as well.