[ExI] [Extropolis] libertarians

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Brent Allsop via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] [Extropolis] libertarians

 

 

>…I didn't realize there were this many people that think Trump is Better than Biden, here.

I sure think it'd be great to know how many people are on what side of this issue.

Here is what I think. <https://canonizer.com/topic/853-If-Only-Trump-or-Biden--who-/1-Agreement> 

 

 

 

Brent this observation has likely been influenced by how the past three years have gone.  

 

It argues for ranked voting a proliferation of parties.  Having just two parties dominate everything leads to bad outcomes, just as California’s defacto single party system does.  Eventually a two-party system leads to civil war in government, as has been raging for about the past 6 to 10 years, growing steadily hotter.

 

There is a cool side benefit however: waaaay better transparency in government than we have ever seen.  Cover ups are being exposed.  We are finding out how deep the corruption goes, which appears deep indeed.  If that quid pro quo video is real, that implicates the hell outta congress for instance.  If the 1023 revealed by congress recently is real, it implicates the hell outta the FBI.  If the IRS is telling the truth, it implicates the hell outta the Department of Justice, who the IRS claims ordered them to stand down on mysterious money trails, which it is the IRS’ job to investigate.

 

That is a lotta potential corruption, and it is very widespread.

 

Regarding proliferation of parties, what that does is create the need for coalitions in government.  So the end game in that is to still have (functionally) two sides, even without having two dominant parties.  The two sides gain power by collecting coalitions, or groups of parties.  Britain gets it mostly right here, with their three major parties, all needing to form coalitions.  

 

spike

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