@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

@johnzajac I continue to think that we need to use ballot initiatives and lobbying to push for universal ranked choice voting. Those tools remain available to us.

RCV rewards appealing platforms and punishes extremist platforms. Over time people will get so hooked on the results of an actual representative democracy that they will refuse to give it up to appease the oligarchs. There will eventually stop being oligarchs.

The most recent highly-visible example of the power of RCV was the election of Zohran Mamdani, who won because of his platform and despite big money on both sides.

And we should be able to sell this to the rural right-wing too. Choose the zealot who exactly matches your crazy beliefs, whatever they are. And still over time as they come to realize that they're not sick or starving and that their kids have a future, they'll be moving in the direction of government that exists to help everyone. They won't get to universal healthcare or universal basic income as fast as some of us, but they will get there.

Here's one of many analyses out there:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-future-of-the-instant-runoff-election-reform/

If violence is our only tool, we've already lost. Violence doesn't offer a safeguard that reforms will hold. Only a system that engages the public in a positive way has any hope of bringing about the changes we desperately need.

#rankedchoice #rcv