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A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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The Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy people who don't like the policies of the wealthy people who run the Republican Party.
There is no way that we'll ever have a government for the people until we pass campaign finance reform, and the wealthy people who run the parties don't want that to happen.
If we can't get giant popular sentiment to do something like push for a constitutional amendment, then the best we can ever hope for is tiny baby steps.
We also need ranked-choice voting.
STAR voting is a little bit better. It's easier to understand and easier to implement, and also honestly a little more accurate (and doesn't suffer from any of the inherent mathematical problems that exist in an ordinal-ranking-only system).
It barely matters, almost anything would be an improvement over FPTP + politicial parties so I'm not trying to tear down one solution as the enemy of the perfect, but STAR is a little bit better.
Good to know! The mathematics behind this stuff are beyond me at the moment.
Yeah. STAR is simple: Everyone gives each candidate from 0 to 5 stars, and then whoever has the most stars wins. Easy peazy lemon squeezy. There's none of this "hold on let me fire up the algorithm..." involved.