One of Andrew Yang's best ideas, though it's not original to him, is pushing ranked-choice voting. This would start to make smaller parties viable, and encourage depolarization in our politics by divvying up the all-or-nothing, red-vs.-blue team dynamic into more like four to six parties.
The Republican Party would break apart roughly as follows:
1. The Christian nationalists (the anti-abortion, prayer-in-schools folks - the Mike Pences, Rick Santorums, and Mike Huckabees)
2. The pro-business, lower-my-taxes, slash-the-deficit moderates (the Mitt Romneys, the Paul Ryans)
3. The anti-globalist, anti-"woke," populist Vikor Orban-admiring culture warriors (the Donald Trumps, Ron DeSantises, etc.)
And the Democratic Party would become:
1. The blue-collar, pro-labor union, somewhat culturally conservative and religion-friendly wing (represented by Eric Adams, mayor of NYC)
2. The moderate old-guard (the Pelosis, Schumers, HRCs, Bidens)
3. The unabashed progressives (the AOCs, Bernies, "the Squad")
(1 & 2 aren't really so different, so maybe the Democrats would just break into 2 factions)
Opportunities for collaboration among these multiple factions on discrete issues would certainly increase. Working with "the other side" won't be perceived as a heresy, since things won't be as simple as "the other side."
Example: The Mitt Romney faction teams up with the "Democratic" factions, and maybe the Christian nationalists as well, to pass a permanent child tax credit: a wildly popular but sadly short-lived Covid-era policy that became a casualty of our polarized politics.
To make these smaller parties viable at the Presidential level, we'd have to transition away from the winner-take-all Electoral College system and into a national popular vote.
All that said...
Which of the two major parties, as they currently exist, is far more likely to favor ranked-choice voting and abolishing the Electoral College?
...you guessed it, the Democrats. Welp.
Thanks Yang!
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