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IN-DEPTH: Top Law Schools Promote Ditching the Constitution
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There are ways to make constitution changes become more common without changing the 75% rule. I believe that the reason why changes have stopped is because of how deeply entrenched the two political parties have become. They know that they'll continue being in power if they don't make any changes. So, they just maintain the status quo with minimal changes.
Ranked choice voting is a way to force them to make the changes that people want or get voted out. Rn they can't be voted out as there are only two realistic options.
I agree with you that people should be able to decide what happens to their body without fear of retaliation. That's an amendment I would vote for.
Ranked choice voting seems like a over complicated way to diminish a vote. Because we don't vote for the candidates in the first place.
One person one vote is still the best way to do it imo.
What if 90% of people hated both parties. But half of them hate part A more than party B and the other half hate B more than A. They'll have to choose what they consider to be the lesser of two evils. Instead of voting for a candidate who represents their view, as was intended by the democratic system, they instead vote for the candidate who is least against their views out of two options.
With ranked choice voting they can vote for whoever best represents their views. If there aren't enough people voting for that person, then your vote would go to the next closest person to your views. And so forth and so on. In the end, imo the resulting candidate would have the closest views to the most people.
It would break up the factionalism that George Washington warned against.
So how would you vote for the people to be voted for in the first place?
What you are gonna get is a bunch of puppet candidates specifically placed to dilute another candidates votes. You just complicate actually obfuscate the vote. So that the layman gets tricked into giving his vote to a turdbag. We already have a system where your vote can go to the next vote. It's called the primaries. And most people don't vote there.
Instead encourage primary voting.