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Guðsþegn [ goods • thane ]
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This user actively participated in rebellion against the Great 2006 New Year's Day Userbox Purge in favor of Userbox rights. |
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Guðsþegn Hermansson 
... has a strange affinity for the people and culture of Iceland, though he's never been there. ... lives in Austin, Texas. ... grew up in Southeast Texas. ... is ever so close to finishing a Master of Divinity degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. ... received a bachelor degree in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. ... is an Architect, i.e. an INTP, according to popular personality sorting. ... considers himself a Catholic and Evangelical of the Reformed Baptist variety (believe it or not; can explain). ... considers himself a Christian Democrat. ... wishes he could vote for a party that wants to actually save unborn babies, rather than just have an issue to get Christian votes. ... wishes he could vote for a party that wants to actually help the weak, rather than just the powerful (especially with universal health security; and while Obamacare is a step forward, it is not universal, and unfortunately is coercive). ... wishes he could vote for a party that wants to save American jobs and make workers lives better, rather than providing corporate welfare to send jobs overseas. ... is helping to create the nascent Christian Democratic Union (USA).
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FANTASY FUTURE:
North American Union
similar to the European Union |
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[edit] Voting System Reform
As with many others trying to break out of the politically oppressive two-party system box that is characteristic of the current American electoral system, the CDP advocates instant-runoff voting (IRV), to replace the current first-past-the-post voting (FPTP) system.
The current American two-party system is created by the convergence of two traditions, one constitutionally mandated and the other simply arbitrary. In the United States, the separated legislative and executive branches are constitutionally mandated. This system was created by the founding fathers to help deter any formation of a monarch, a laudible goal. Though most of the founding fathers despised the idea of political parties in general (a bit near-sighted given the nature of man), the system they created (when combined with FPTP voting) helped create an entrenched two-party system. In contrast, parliamentary systems (as in Britain) tend to deter the emergence of an entrenched two-party system. The other tradition, the seemingly intuitive but actually totally arbitrary first-past-the-post voting system, when combined with the presidential, or separated powers, system of governance almost guarantees an entrenched two-party system.
Replacing the current FPTP system with Instant-runoff voting would require no constitutional or legal change at the federal level (some states may require change if they have enshrined FPTP voting). In addition, (contrary to some criticism by two-party system advocates) IRV could easily work alongside the electoral college system. There is no conflict at all between them. The reason two-party system advocates do not like IRV is because it would move the United States toward having a Congress that to a greater degree proportionally represents the real desires and voice of the American people, and it would cause the powers-that-be to lose some of their power. IRV would almost certainly open the system to parties like the CDP, because it would dissuade voters from engaging in the now common practice of tactical voting, which is exactly the thing that entrenches the two-party system.
Curiously, in FPTP, the post (i.e. the requirement to win) actually moves, according to how many candidates are in the field. With FPTP, a candidate in a field of six could potentially win with just 17% of the vote. In IRV, the requirement to win is always a majority of the vote. The winner in an IRV election may not be the first choice of a majority of the voters (as is also true with the current FPTP system), but the winner will certainly be the candidate desired more than any of the other candidates (unlike FPTP) and a majority winner over the second place candidate. This is to some degree true with all runoff voting, but unlike runoff voting in general (as in Louisiana voting), instant-runoff voting (IRV) does not require any additional voting events. You only go to the ballot box once.
Some positive side effects of going to an IRV system would be that more people would be likely to vote, because they could vote for a candidate that more closely represented their views without feeling like they were totally wasting their time. Moreover, because IRV is a "ranked choice" voting system, it is very likely that there would be much less negative campaigning, because candidates would not only be seeking to be the first choice of the voters, but they would also be seeking to be the second and third choice of voters who actually prefer other candidates. The candidates would not want to offend those voters who prefer an opposing candidate by calling their favorite candidate a "slime bag" because they need some of their second choice votes. This would probably produce a great deal more substantive debate as well, because when personal issues are out of the way, more important issues can fill the gap.
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