{"id":32883,"date":"2021-05-05T20:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32883"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:15:21","slug":"saving-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/05\/saving-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving The Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve written about at tiresome length, the Republican Party has been taken over by extremists because of a culture of toxic team politics, combined with a loathing of experts, at least experts whose pronouncements are in disagreements<\/del> with one of the Holy Tenets of the Party, whether that be taxes are evil<\/em> or regulation is an economy killer<\/em> or something out in authentic holy land, such as abortion is evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This combination results in the rejection of the idea that competency is relevant; we instead see deeply incompetent extremists, such as Boer<\/del>bert and Greene and Gohmert and so many others, who do think<\/del> the 2nd Amendment Jig or the anti-tax polka really well, convince the zealots who often guide the candidate selection process that they’re loyal to the ideology, and so we see idiots on the ballot.<\/p>\n

But as I contemplated this article on ranked choice voting<\/a>, it occurred to me that it was too bad the writer aimed it at progressives rather than who really needs to see it – conservatives.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, ranked-choice voting facilitates more productive, issue-driven campaigns. And New York is far from the only place in the United States that could benefit. Other major cities like\u00a0San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Minneapolis<\/a>\u00a0have used ranked-choice voting for years. Both\u00a0Maine and Alaska<\/a>\u00a0recently implemented the system statewide through ballot measures. And just this past weekend, Austin\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a0to adopt the system, though the city will still need to\u00a0overcome statewide legal limitations<\/a>. [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By letting voters assign votes to several candidates, such as, say, moderate Republicans, it might result in the repudiation of extremists such as Gohmert and Gosar, and that in turn could lead to a culture transformation as the leaders who permitted the extremists to take over are kicked out. Team voting may still exist, but if there are several on the team, maybe you pick the experienced, moderate candidate, rather than the one with the hair on fire.<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that many moderates are already gone from the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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