Reply #40: Unlikely doesn't mean it can't happen [View All]

[GreenPartyVoter]

Yeah, Buckley v. Valeo could actually get overturned, or the Congress could enact a change to ranked voting.

Or it could happen state-by-state or even city by city. Maine has clean elections. 3/4s of our legislature was elected with them. And we are considering ranked voting (albeit IRV) as an alternative for plurality voting.

So guess what, you get enough municipalities and states to make these changes, then they will trickle upwards to the federal level. Someday the Congress may be made up of enough reps and sens elected by stated which already passed the reforms that getting it to pass at that level is no longer a tough sell.

Grassroots change is effective and it does work. It can be slow, but that's ok. I'd rather see this nation change so that my grandkids have a better chance at getting a decent government in place than to just shrug my shoulders and say "ah well, that's the way the cookie crumbles" and leave them to the likelihood of some other Bu$h getting in office.

But that's just me. You seem pretty pleased with the staus quo so obviously it's not in your interest to do anything to change it.