You tolerating crime and exacerbating it with lenient progressive policy in the name of fairness is weird af. lol. SMH. Lol. Lol. |
So you don’t support police? Must be nice to live in wealthy suburb full of yard signs. We get it. |
Police are part of the government bureaucracy. Why is anyone "worshiping" a bureaucrat? Police get paid to do a job, with both upsides and downsides. As a taxpayer, I expect them to do their job in a manner that respects Constitutional and civil rights. If they can't do that, they should get the boot. |
What does that have to do with anything ? |
I’m voting for him! |
We live in a one-party state without a competitive general election. All the general election votes are joke votes. The only statement one can make is to eother guve Bowser 90% of the votes or 70%. The general election itself is a joke. I'm voting for Red because we need open primaries and competition. |
We need competitive candidates too. Robert White was the closest. Open primaries wouldn't have made a difference. Republican and libertarian candidates don't have a chance in DC. |
Open primaries can result in 2 Democratic candidates for the general. |
You think Robert White would beat Bowser in a head to head? |
I don't know and don't care because it's moot. I just want a real choice. Our current system prevents better candidates from running because the election is decided in June by a plurality of the intraparty vote. |
Moving DC to the California model of voting would be great. I’m 100% in support of it. |
Don't get me wrong, I agree that we should have a better voting system. I just think it doesn't solve things with the current crop of candidates. We still end up with Bowser. I don't think it's even an issue of more progressive or more conservative. I think we need someone more genuine and thoughtful than Muriel "Slogans" Bowser. |
If there is one thing that a Republican congressional majority would impose upon DC it is a better voting system. The current model benefits no one except incumbents and those incumbents are using all sorts of nonsense - like trying to argue that ranked choice voting is racist - to forestall a move to a system that ensure that electoral outcomes actually reflect voter preferences. I’d prefer ranked choice voting, but even open primaries would be a massive improvement over what we currently have. |
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That's a chicken and egg problem. White was the primary opposition candidate because the Teacher's Union was the main special interest group up for grabs. The system, which includes the small Council and at large positions, creates the results and candidates we get Give us an expanded Council, no at large positions, and a jungle primary and we'll have better candidates. |