#negative partisanship

so maybe this is something we can actually do? pressure local govts to use ranked choice voting on ballots.

We're Doing Elections Wrong | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix [source]

We're doing elections wrong in America and we drag our feet against change until we have no soles to our shoes. We can't decide what our voting provisions are on a national level, we can't decide between plurality and majority, we chastise 3rd party voters even though the two party system is failing us.

“How America Was Lost”: Maybe We Should All Start Wearing Baseball Caps That Say, “Make America Governable Again”

Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In today’s America, with today’s G.O.P., the passing of Antonin Scalia has opened the doors to chaos.

In principle, losing a justice should cause at most a mild disturbance in the national scene. After…