That's tempting but anti-democratic in its own way. What makes all of this so intractable is that a critical mass of voters WANT this stuff. They hate D's so much that they're willing to change their form of government, and toss out the American experiment, to punish and deny them power.
That's tempting but anti-democratic in its own way. What makes all of this so intractable is that a critical mass of voters WANT this stuff. They hate D's so much that they're willing to change their form of government, and toss out the American experiment, to punish and deny them power.
I don't know. Not much different than what ranked choice voting may well have done. Which is basically adding in the factor of voting against who you hate.
Also, the concept of something being more anti-democratic than a primary system coupled with our first past the post and electoral college system calcifying two (and only two) parties as the only realistic choices...well, it is certainly possible, but I'm not sure candidates using their free speech to declare someone unacceptable passes the bar automatically.
That's tempting but anti-democratic in its own way. What makes all of this so intractable is that a critical mass of voters WANT this stuff. They hate D's so much that they're willing to change their form of government, and toss out the American experiment, to punish and deny them power.
It certainly isn't democratic to destroy democracy, even if you use the machinery of democracy to do it.
I don't know. Not much different than what ranked choice voting may well have done. Which is basically adding in the factor of voting against who you hate.
Also, the concept of something being more anti-democratic than a primary system coupled with our first past the post and electoral college system calcifying two (and only two) parties as the only realistic choices...well, it is certainly possible, but I'm not sure candidates using their free speech to declare someone unacceptable passes the bar automatically.