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markzbarabak · @markzbarabak
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The real lesson of the current frenzy over classified documents: The government classifies way too much. How much? In 2017, officials counted 49 million documents. Then they gave up counting. Time for fundamental change.
The LA Times’ David Lauter

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SevenBowie · @SevenBowie
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RT @LadyRaven3@twitter.com

@BadrobotLinda@twitter.com @Crazy_Mama_G@twitter.com .
Everything the Republicans say and do is a distraction tactic, so Americans won’t focus on Repubs. real agenda—enriching themselves and further enriching the billionaire class who own them, lock, stock & barrel.

now.




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🐦🔗: twitter.com/LadyRaven3/status/

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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Tired of voting and suffering in campaigns only to end up with a Congress of millionaires who don't represent you? Forget elections; the ancients show us a better and more democratic form of government: sortition and referendum.

Read more at my : adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/a

This post's featured image is Thomas Le Clear's "Young America".

#blog #politics #politicalreform #elections #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #sortition #democracy #art #TraditionalArt #painting #oilpainting

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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The best people in our society can't stand the meat grinder of electoral politics, or, worse yet, are destroyed by it, and the problem is getting worse with time. Sortition solves this problem; ordinary people can govern without destroying their lives: adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/a

#politics #politicalreform #elections #votingsystems #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #sortition #democracy #art #TraditionalArt #painting #oilpainting #thoughts #lifestyle #advice

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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Want to reinvigorate democracy in America but balk at sortition? How about Dutch-style pure proportional representation?

Read more at my : adamasnemesis.com/2021/09/27/f

This post's featured image is Pierre Bouillon's "The Child of Fortune (1801).

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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To be clear, I vastly prefer sortition and direct democracy (e.g. citizens' initiatives) to any kind of election system, but if we must have elections why settle for anything less than pure proportional representation of the actual votes?

My blog post on sortition: adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/a

Image is Thomas Le Clear's "Young America".

#politics #politicalreform #elections #votingsystems #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #sortition #democracy #art #TraditionalArt #painting #oilpainting

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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With STV you still elect individuals, not party lists, and since a majority in one local district have enough nationwide vote share to win a seat under nationwide PR they'd still be able to elect members of their choice, so what's not to like? Let's do it!

Image is Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's "Abschied".

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Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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Today I learned H.G. Wells supported proportional representation, and agreed with me that single transferable vote in large districts (like the whole country) is the best version! His arguments for ranked-choice voting in 1918 are still relevant today.
archive.org/details/infourthye

Image is a photograph of H.G. Wells thinking, c. 1890.

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