Tuesday, March 26, 2019

A Good Explanations of Why Ranked-Choice Voting Prevents The Most Depraved Right From Gaining Power

Yesterday I recommended the Youtube channel A Different Bias as a guide to the spectacular chaos that the Brexit shit-show has turned into  - Lord Buckethead got that right.   

In a post Phil put up last night he explained what happened as the Commons voted to take the issue, temporarily, out of the incompetent hands of Teresa May and her cabinet.   

But in pointing out how that could turn into a problem, Phil gave one of the better explanations of the reason that ranked choice voting is a way of preventing the worst choices by letting people vote for what's acceptable to them that I've heard.  As a huge fan of ranked-choice voting, I thought I'd point that out.   There's a reason that Republican-fascists here in Maine are trying to keep ranked-choice voting from being the rule that governs all our elections, it's because they know that they are most peoples' last choice.  In an earlier post Phil also pointed out one of the greatest aids to the far right in Britain is the fragmentation of parties on the left, something that seems as irresistible as it is irrational to lefties all over the place.  In multi-party situations ranked-choice is probably the only way to prevent that from turning into an ever descending spiral into the sewer of U.S. style Republican-fascism.   

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