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Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act by jcranmer on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:21PM (#23706866)
> I think there's a strong argument that RCV/Approval would shift the incentives and game-theoretic landscape away from polarization and turnout, and towards big-tent coalition building, to appeal to the greatest quantity of left, right, center, and independent.

I think most people wildly overestimate the popular appeal for compromise. Only about 20% of the population would support an opposite-side moderate over a near-side extremist. A true centrist party is doomed to lose in any system that knocks out unviable candidates, since it's the first choice of almost nobody.

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Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act by IggleSniggle on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:23PM (#23707496)
It's almost as if you didn't even imagine what a "no 'opposite side' per se" would even look like.

I think there's a LOT more room for nuance than "this" or "that" even among the ignorant and/or unengaged. Just look at sports-team divides in the US for evidence.

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Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act by SenoraRaton on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:14PM (#23707967)
Except there ARE two sides. Capital controlled means of production, and worker owned means of production. These two systems are diametrically opposed to each other. This just comes across as enlightened centrism. I am vehemently opposed to the economic system of capitalism, and I think that it stands in opposition to the very concept of democracy. How am I supposed to see the capitalist as "the same side"?
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Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act by tptacek on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:37AM (#23710335)
Workers owning the means of production is not in fact one of the major factions in US politics, regardless of how much Twitter leftists and Republicans would like you to believe that.
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