| | I voted for run-off elections as the best solution to all of our problems.
You could argue against that by saying that bipartisanship isn't the biggest problem (even if it is the best solution). I got wind of the idea of being solution-focused rather than problem-focused (comparing alternatives based on the best solutions, rather than on the size of the problem) from Bjorn Lomborg, head of that Copenhagen Consensus place. I picked up the book Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems. It's utilitarian, but I found it useful, nonetheless.
Basically, if we had run-off elections, then all of our problems would eventually go away (because leaders would get their feet held to the fire more). Like Ron Paul, I see bipartisanship as being our chief means of perpetuated evil in this country (though it's not, in-and-of-itself, inherently evil).
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 9/20, 6:03pm)
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