Geeko Sportivo (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021), Jack (06-23-2021)
Agreed.
Agreed about winnowing the herd quickly.
IMO, it's best to start pushing for ranked elections at local and state levels. Once people see both the results and the wisdom of it, they'll more likely push for it in national elections.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Geeko Sportivo (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021), Jack (06-23-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Consider an online English class for starters. Being able to read and write, especially write, well will produce positive results and advancement in management because they have to write reports all the time. No managers want to have to continually have to rewrite reports of their supervisors or lower managers.
What job would you like to be working in 5 years? 10?
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https://www.khanacademy.org/humaniti...andard-english
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
In national elections, the GOP has not been able to consistently convince a majority-plurality of voters of the superiority of their ideas since the mid to late 20th century.
Whatever the founders were doing, they certainly did not intend to create a tyranny of the minority*.
* of eligible voters
Doc Dutch (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021), Phantasmal (06-23-2021)
Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
But they did intend to prevent a tyranny of the majority. There is no other reason for the EC. Without it new York and California would elect presidents. That's hardly a representation of all of America. Leftists are like the kid we had in my neighborhood growing up. Everytime the rules worked against him winning he wanted to change the rules. It was most hilarious when we would play baseball. If his team had fewer runs than the other team after the 9th inning he would demand we keep playing. Lmfao. I can't tell you how many times we just left him there screaming. Good memories.
What I like most about it, is it completely eliminates the need for an expensive and unnecessary runoff of any primary!
It would have probably eliminated the idiot Donald Trump from the primaries before the very first national REPUBLICAN debate!
Because as I remember- he started out at the very bottom of the Republican list and only gained attention when he came out as a slasher during the debate- AND THE REPUBLICANS SAID- "I WANT THIS SLASHER AND PSYCHO IDIOT TO BE MY PRESIDENT"!
And then the cluster fuck, BRAINFARTS, and snowball TRUMPTARD effect happened!
Jack (06-23-2021), Phantasmal (06-23-2021)
PostmodernProphet (06-23-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
Cypress (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
I am old enough to remember that in 2000 when polling showed it looked like Al Gore might win the EC while losing the popular vote, Team Bush was expressing outrage and challenging whether that would actually be a legitimate Gore victory.
On election night 2012, Trump was rage tweeting about the unfairness that, based on early returns, he thought Obama would win the EC while losing the pop vote to Romney.
So yes, I think we are one election away from Republicans decisively winning the popular vote while being denied the presidency due to the EC, for a constitutional amendment to be a real possibility
Doc Dutch (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
Ranking would have knocked out Nader and seen Gore as the clear winner just like ranking would have knocked out Perot and seen GHW Bush as the clear winner in 1992.
Disagreed that a popular vote loss by the Republicans will see a huge swing in Red States ratifying eliminating the EC. Most know the population increases are mainly in the cities.
Hillary's infamous "3 million votes" were on the West Coast, one or two states. Eliminating the EC means the most populous states dictate the leadership of the USA to all smaller states.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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