As a public service while site maintenance proceeds, I thought I'd provide some stress testing by posting a journal to interest those not involved in the nitty gritty. So...
Never before has the American electorate been so neatly split as in the 2022 midterm voting.
Now I am not a student of political science, but the mathematician in me suspects that any time you filter democracy through partisan politics, the inevitable result will be
a) the number of parties will rapidly reduce to two
b) given enough smart people in the two parties, the share of the electorate attracted by those parties will rapidly approach 50-50
This, to my way of thinking is the fundamental flaw in partisan politics. It seems to me that a much better approach is to eliminate nominations, primaries and campaigns and rather have people vote for people they think might best serve in particular positions - whoever they are and from wherever they hail.
Surely, I am displaying my ignorance of "how true power works in the real world", but I thought I'd throw my observation out there and ask if anyone else knows of better ways.
The neatly split electorate
As a public service while site maintenance proceeds, I thought I'd provide some stress testing by posting a journal to interest those not involved in the nitty gritty. So...
Never before has the American electorate been so neatly split as in the 2022 midterm voting.
Now I am not a student of political science, but the mathematician in me suspects that any time you filter democracy through partisan politics, the inevitable result will be
a) the number of parties will rapidly reduce to two
b) given enough smart people in the two parties, the share of the electorate attracted by those parties will rapidly approach 50-50
This, to my way of thinking is the fundamental flaw in partisan politics. It seems to me that a much better approach is to eliminate nominations, primaries and campaigns and rather have people vote for people they think might best serve in particular positions - whoever they are and from wherever they hail.
Surely, I am displaying my ignorance of "how true power works in the real world", but I thought I'd throw my observation out there and ask if anyone else knows of better ways.
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