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…
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…