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The only way that he beats Oz is that he caucuses with the Democrats. And I HATE when games make me do stupid things because of their dumb mechanics.
Good metaphor, and I agree. But I'm practical above all else, so votes blue no matter who.
It's nice when there are two Democrats running here in California so I can actually vote based on policy instead of party affiliation.
As someone who owned a "Kucinich for President" bumper sticker I've given up hope of ever voting for someone I actually like in a general election.
Yeah, first past the post means unless you're a die-hard neoliberal you're not getting who you want and just have to do damage control.
I don't think I'd be happy in a ranked-choice system. Representation seems like a pretty bad implementation of a consensus algorithm.
What's your preferred alternative?
Direct democracy would be my most preferred method. But that has scaling issues.
What is your opinion on liquid democracy?
I've never heard of it but I expect plasma democracy would be more fun.
Its a hybrid between direct and representative democracy that tries to be the best of both worlds
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy