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@michaeloberg.bsky.social

Wow, sounds like you’ve got it all figured out! When do I get to join this genius club? 😏✨

Michael Oberg

Increase house members to 2000 or something

Steward Universal

@stewniverse.bsky.social

The right is a week away from saying not being a pedophile is woke.

Richard

@richdef.bsky.social

Ahh! Deep Thought: The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Answer: 42.

Leland Lydecker

@lelandlydecker.com

Alternative last panel: *unplugs machine* "Actually, I just realized the solution is AI!"

Disagree on the nonpartisan primaries. Political parties are an important and necessary part of a healthy democracy. This should be acknowledged and they should be formally integrated with the system. The present duopoly is awful, but exist after every reform (e.g., public primaries) weakens them.

We definitely need proportional representation with multi-seat districts. Instead of using a ranked ballot/Single Transferable Vote/Proportional RCV, I think we should use a system with party lists. P-RCV doesn’t have the incentives to fix the parties.

Scott Santens

@scottsantens.com

I don't like political parties so I don't like party lists. I just want to vote based on the policies that candidates support and oppose.

Your view is very common, but I don’t think it’s optimal nor does it function well in political reality. It seems similar to the view of many/most founding fathers at the founding. However, within a decade or so they created highly polarized political parties and were very very partisan.

Thank you for your reply and for the work you do for UBI.

The present two main political parties suck. The present system is individual candidate-centric, as P-RCV. If we want a better system, we need better political parties. If we want better political parties, we have to directly address political parties. We need a system that makes them accountable.