What has galled me for years is that people see politics through the frame of consumer choice, like why is it only Coke or Pepsi and what happened to RC Cola? It doesn't help that recent marketing has made brand choice a form of virtue signaling -- choose this brand because it best reflects your lifestyle. This utterly infuriated me abou…
What has galled me for years is that people see politics through the frame of consumer choice, like why is it only Coke or Pepsi and what happened to RC Cola? It doesn't help that recent marketing has made brand choice a form of virtue signaling -- choose this brand because it best reflects your lifestyle. This utterly infuriated me about Bernie supporters. "I wanna vote for somebody who reflects all my virtuous, correct beliefs and if they don't, I'll just stay home."
I couldn't have been a bigger Elizabeth Warren superstan in the '20 primary. When the centrists dropped out to consolidate the anti-Bernie vote and then Liz dropped out shortly after, I was gutted. I cried for a weekend. But I didn't have the slightest problem afterwards getting on the Joe Train and working my butt off for him in the general election.
One thing that could mitigate this, but every state would have to do it, is to adopt IRV (Instant Runoff Voting). That way, you could vote for your favorite flavor and put one of the "lesser evils" (who you know damn well is going to win) as your second choice. IRV is what ditched Sarah Palin and made Mary Peltola the only Democrat in the Alaska delegation.
What has galled me for years is that people see politics through the frame of consumer choice, like why is it only Coke or Pepsi and what happened to RC Cola? It doesn't help that recent marketing has made brand choice a form of virtue signaling -- choose this brand because it best reflects your lifestyle. This utterly infuriated me about Bernie supporters. "I wanna vote for somebody who reflects all my virtuous, correct beliefs and if they don't, I'll just stay home."
I couldn't have been a bigger Elizabeth Warren superstan in the '20 primary. When the centrists dropped out to consolidate the anti-Bernie vote and then Liz dropped out shortly after, I was gutted. I cried for a weekend. But I didn't have the slightest problem afterwards getting on the Joe Train and working my butt off for him in the general election.
One thing that could mitigate this, but every state would have to do it, is to adopt IRV (Instant Runoff Voting). That way, you could vote for your favorite flavor and put one of the "lesser evils" (who you know damn well is going to win) as your second choice. IRV is what ditched Sarah Palin and made Mary Peltola the only Democrat in the Alaska delegation.