Before the internet, mass media and political parties served useful functions. It was much harder to exchange ideas and organize. Decentralized social media (ala the #fediverse) and #rankedchoicevoting will move us beyond the structural limits of our past.
the parties tend to fight it but it's spreading anyway.
hopefully so
@wjmaggos
will states allow ranked choice voting tho?
anonymous speech seemed important at our founding... yet now it seems if you have that you have bots flooding and polluting the discourse
#Politics uspol