Ranked-choice voting: good
Abolishing primaries: bad
Abolishing primaries: bad
https://twitter.com/KCStar/status/1465421784564609028
Re: party primaries
This is one of those things that makes sense at first but falls apart after the slightest of scrutiny. We had primaries before we had polarization, and polarization has worsened as the modern primary system has mostly stayed constant. 1/2
This is one of those things that makes sense at first but falls apart after the slightest of scrutiny. We had primaries before we had polarization, and polarization has worsened as the modern primary system has mostly stayed constant. 1/2
https://twitter.com/shteivenreda/status/1465755409046818823
2/2 I do think primaries *sustain* some amount of polarization, but they didn’t cause it. We have polarization bc leaders & voters moved to the poles (esp on the right). We need 2 give pols incentives to move to the center, and complete democratization probably isn’t the solution
There are a lot of rich and powerful people funding reforms for Top Five and related systems, with a lot of current and former politician allies (which is why you hear a lot more about it than multi-member RCV or PR), and in general I think they’re pursuing suboptimal solutions
I agree, though given the low probability of real reform I’d go even further & say they would probably have a higher ROI if they just spent all their money funding pro-democracy candidates at the state lege and CD level — so reformers could later pursue PR from within the system
https://twitter.com/politicswolf/status/1465761492423168000
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