fighting the lack of good ideas
Imagine you are Gus Gorman, and you live in the United States – a country which uses the Electoral College for their national election process – while each state or province may award electors based on the popular vote (either an all-or-nothing approach, or proportionally), a pure “most votes” count does not necessarily indicate a…
What thinketh ye all? Should polling places be located at churches, civic centers, fire departments, somewhere else? Why? What does the location make you think while you’re casting your vote?
A lot of talk has been made in the past couple years (and even currently by one of the fellas running for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination to be their candidate for President) of governments (which really means taxpayers) funding a universal basic income. Alaska’s been doing something like this for close to 40 years….
Here’s a quick reminder for all you voting types out there – vote for Myers 2016, “I suck less than the other guy”.
In Kentucky, this past Tuesday was Primary Day. The day every registered voter, in the appropriate party, could go to the polls and say who we want to run to represent our party in the General Election. While political parties, as such, need to be abolished, and voting is borked, that every state holds its…
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In close follow-up with my desire to see political parties abolished, we also need to rethink how voting is done. In the United States, you can only vote for a single candidate for most positions (town councils are an exception). You do not have the opportunity to say anything more than a binary yes|no to…
John Adams and George Washington, among many others, both warned of the dangers of political parties. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be…