politics

RFK Jr's campaign showed that it's impossible to have a 3rd party candidate in the US, it's just too hard. The guy had the name, the signatures and the political opportunity... yet he had to stop.

IMHO the next best realistic chance to fix politics is to change the voting method used in primaries.

As a society, we're so used to choosing 1 candidate among many that we forgot (i) that other methods exist and (ii) how we vote massively impacts the political life. 

This TED talk from Andrew Yang is a great introduction to this rabbit hole 👇

RFK Jr's campaign showed that it's impossible to have a 3rd party candidate in the US, it's just too hard. The guy had the name, the signatures and the political opportunity... yet he had to stop.

IMHO the next best realistic chance to fix politics is to change the voting method used in primaries.

As a society, we're so used to choosing 1 candidate among many that we forgot (i) that other methods exist and (ii) how we vote massively impacts the political life. 

This TED talk from Andrew Yang is a great introduction to this rabbit hole 👇
https://youtu.be/1Ws3w_ZOmhI?si=14rN5cIPqtsRaQOZ

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It's maybe a function of the challenges in US politics to:

(1) establish a platform catered to the fringes (ex: anti-vax) -> (2) capture those segments -> (3) expand platform to absorb adjacent voter segments from existing parties while maintaining the base-> (4) resist joining the existing parties -> (5) continue to win over more voter segments from existing parties while still having the fringe base

Very reductionist (and probably flawed), but I think it's particularly tough when a politician's voter base is on polar opposites value-systems of the incremental voter-bases they'd need to have a shot.