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[quote=Anonymous]We don't have a democracy. We have a democratically elected republic...if we can keep it. Things have gotten close to untenably polarized, with compromise more and more seen as less politically profitable than hardline tactics and those representatives more and more often promoting the interests of a "majority-of-the-majority" minority on many issues, even as they might be elected by a majority (though mere pluralities can prevail, there). Why we hadn't adopted ranked-choice instant runoff voting with automatic hand recounts from duplicate paper receipts after Bush v. Gore is beyond me, except that it does not favor established parties/entrenched interests. It's neither particularly hard, given the technology available, nor particularly expensive, in light both of the import of the process and of the overall budget.[/quote]
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