How exactly would it boost moderates except in that once the extremes are eliminated, your vote goes to the moderate that you want rather than it failing to oppose the people you don’t want.

I think you’ve pretty much got it. Extreme candidates tend to get eliminated because they tend to be the least popular with other parties voters. RCV punishes this unpopularity. Also candidates with similar goals can work together, this advantage is obviously is going to be unavailable for people running from the fringe.

Just imagine a New York primary where two weak moderates were running against a progressive. The two moderates are almost working together because it’s likely that whoever looses will gift their votes to the other. Ranked choice candidates have often “teamed up”, with ads asking their supporters to rank the other candidate 2nd.

I think lots of Democrats have been thinking about how the primary in New York could have been different and this is the answer to that question.

Ranked choice voting tends to boost moderate candidates. While this is valuable in a general election, during a party primary it protects the status quo.

It’s hard for me to look at this as anything other than Schumer and Jefferies putting obstacles in the way of Progressives.

Popular conspiracy theories are still bullshit.

Epstein was cooked, his life was over; he was a pedo facing the US justice system without his privilege; he was destined to never leave prison. People suicide over this sort of thing all the time.

Their are a few facts that are suspicious. But nothing that could support the notion that he was murdered, much less a grand murder conspiracy from a Hollywood spy movie.

Not only is it perfectly reasonable to believe Epstein killed himself, with the info we’ve got, it’s the only reasonable opinion.

Yea it’s funny to call powerful men gay because that would undermine their legitimacy as a leader and a person!

Just stopping by to point out that murdering, spying, and overthrowing a governments is the most normal President shit Trump has done. If your looking for the “return to normality” of Biden or Obama, this is it.

I don’t think Parsons was talking about taxes, but a reordering of society where oligarchs don’t control government. That’s not on the ballot of any State in this Union. And it’s never ever going to be.

Democrats will always do the right thing, after having exhausted every other option.

The ironic part is that they’re working with a government in bed with narco-cartels, something they ostensibly hate. And they can’t say they didn’t know, because it was central to the deal.

Nobody’s opinion on immigration has anything to do with legality. To prove it, just ask them if they would be OK with immigration if we legalized all of it.

You will find that “legal/ illegal” is 100% a stalking horse for another opinion they’re not so comfortable espousing.

King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.

King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.

The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.

Ever notice how in court that pigs are always described as giant cowards? They’re constantly terrified of how a woman flails as she’s thrown to the ground or get PTSD when protesters shine bright flashlights at them.

I’m convinced that final exams at the police academy is a mock courtroom where the recruit has to testify “your honor, I was scared for my life”. Bonus points if you cry.

Just want to remind everyone that murdering people abroad is the most normal President thing Trump has done. Doing dirt in South America has a through-line all the way back to Madison Monroe.

Communism is young. At this point in capitalism’s history, it was all colonization, genocide, and slavery. Apples to apples, I’d rather live in the Soviet Union under Stalin than a South Asian under the Dutch East India company.

One thing our author forgets about the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos is that his authoritarianism was going on for years before the uprising. And that his son is the current president of the Philippines.

So I’m not sure it’s the great example of democracy over authoritarian cult of personality.

I think the apt comparison is Braxton Bragg. Both men being incompetent political hacks.

Even Rand thought libertarians were nuts. She considered them anti-capitalist because she recognized that capitalism couldn’t exist outside of a strong State to enforce it.

The criticism “woke”, “politically correct”, and “bleeding heart” all mean essentially the same thing. That liberals only pretend to care about movements of emancipation to cynically gain political support. And the reason that criticism has lasted so long is because it’s apt.

Zionists doing Zionism. If they thought of Palestinians as humans, it’d give them heartburn.

The betrayal isn’t the base, it’s the race.

Party members worry Leroy Jenkins is undercutting their raid strategy.