Re: election eve

Posted by gepr on Nov 04, 2020; 8:15pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/election-eve-tp7599317p7599379.html

I still think it's the projection/reduction from high dimensions to low that's the problem. While I largely agree that it's batshit crazy to, e.g. for Howie to run for President given the fate of every Green Party objective will suffer dramatically under Trump, it's still an overzealous and irreversible compression. (It's not quite the same to for Jo, though, because under Biden, many Libertarian objectives will be promoted.) The only answer is to change the projection/reduction algorithm, which includes changing Senate, Electoral College, and SCOTUS representation as well as solutions to Gerrymandering, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, etc. And most of all, something like ranked-choice voting.

On 11/4/20 10:58 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:

> FWIW and then similarly someone came up with:
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>   /*It's those with insight who must make the concessions*/.
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> (which sucks).
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> On "half the country is batshit crazy" - to be generous a big percentage of voters were struggling making a living or making ends meet, raising kids, making payments, etc., before COVID-19. With LOUD voices on both sides I see a messaging saturation effect and voters making a relatively random choice, or voting R because they always did, and this partly because they don't have the time or luxury to figure out anything better. Why else would races be so tight when a landslide should have happened? People continue to not vote in their own interest.
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> Robert C
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> On 11/4/20 11:26 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
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>> The fundamental challenge of being a liberal, in the classical sense, is that it obligates you to try to understand the desires and fears of those who disagree with you

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