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A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The corporate-friendly party refuses to learn the lessons of the past decade. When will it implement a truly humane agenda?

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

STAR voting is a little bit better. It's easier to understand and easier to implement, and also honestly a little more accurate (and doesn't suffer from any of the inherent mathematical problems that exist in an ordinal-ranking-only system).

It barely matters, almost anything would be an improvement over FPTP + politicial parties so I'm not trying to tear down one solution as the enemy of the perfect, but STAR is a little bit better.

[–] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good to know! The mathematics behind this stuff are beyond me at the moment.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah. STAR is simple: Everyone gives each candidate from 0 to 5 stars, and then whoever has the most stars wins. Easy peazy lemon squeezy. There's none of this "hold on let me fire up the algorithm..." involved.