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The "broken" US political system is actually working exactly as designed, says business leader and activist Katherine Gehl. Examining the system through a nonpartisan lens, she makes the case for voting innovations, already implemented in parts of the country, that give citizens more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress and solutions instead of just reelection.
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Ha Ha You are correct !
Listen to the vid, she doesn’t mean fixed in the way that it works for the public
Pretty much saying, they don’t work for you and me. I’ve been saying that for years.
@Josh Rauch Why aren’t you?
@Jason Uren You’re another fallacy very nice outstanding move
@Toneious can you explain what you mean or are you just gonna continue with the ad hominems or actually find fault with my argument? Otherwise it just gets tiresome
@Refugee “There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realised to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd men operating behind the scenes.”
From the man who literally wrote the book.
Propaganda, 1928, Edward Bernays
Again, what’s the point in voting when the people voted for are controlled by people we’ve likely never heard of.
@Jason Uren there is no fault in ur argument as we all generally agree that DC is corrupt but my issue with what u said is that your phrasing “I have been saying that for years” makes it seem like you were one of the select few intellects who figured out that a federal power is corrupt before everyone else
thats just questioning political authority and their motives (which has likely existed centuries before the establishment of the worlds first democracy)
I think these are some great ideas
Brilliant
Wow. This makes perfect sense… therefore, it’ll never happen in my lifetime lol
Yeah! how can we vote for this change?
Not with this kind of attitude, that’s for sure…
Found the corporate establishment shill. Or a propagandized and thusly nihilistic person, either of which, not good.
Great it’s the 25 horse race problem with an amazing soluting
You’re absolutely right. The system is FIXED.
Found the corporate establishment shill. Or a propagandized and thusly nihilistic person, either of which, not good.
@Refugee Did any of you actually watch the talk?
Greatings from France, that was a very instructive talk ! Unfortunatly our “democraties” are far from being perfect…
She means fixed, as in stuck and immovable.
@Teresa Godwin As in rigged, too.
I refuse to continue to be bullied into choosing the lesser of two evils, both sides are awful and the system is “fixed” as in rigged against our best interests. Final five voting is exactly what we need!
Most democracies have a better voting system than the US. This sounds like the smallest change that would allow the US to start to catch up.
Why they didn’t make this from the start? 😉
Logistics mostly. Founders thought that coordinating a party over the whole of 13 states would be impossible. Then we got phone lines and cars and trains. As we see, parties have managed to coordinate very well.
Second, ranked choice voting is harder to tabulate. Not a lot harder, but harder. They were doing it by hand, so wanted to keep it simple and cheap. We’ve got machines (with paper trail) to help now.
They have ranked voting in Australia. It makes a lot more sence. Promotes the person who shi es above the crowd. Or the little person in the case of a protest vote. Instead of just forced to vote for the lesser of two evils: dumb or dumber.
Aside: video worked better for me at 1.25 speed, something about the pacing.
Agree
Innovation, results and accountability that’s the crux
Kudos
That wordplay in the title, hah!
This is how Australia works – the person who is disliked the least wins