Without term limits, a lot of the time we would. I think it's also safe to assume we would get more parties running closer to the actual center, which is much to the left of what is currently thought of as the "center". The parties would have a shorter list of differences between them and even in the event of rapid cycling it would be somewhat less jarring.

It doesn't fix the core issues with dead-end liberal electoralism don't get me wrong, it just takes away some of the tricks they use to manufacture consent. They would never allow it.

You have to care a lot to go wait in line for 2 hours on one specific day, but if you could vote any day with no line that makes it 100 times easier for people who have limited transportation to have their vote counted, even if it's some years out of date that's going to be a positive.

If we must put it in terms of an election cycle, then yeah even then. If your vote is still "valid" insofar as that person is still alive and running, I think its better to assume that you still support them vs 1/3rd turnout that we see now. You can vote any given day, so "forgetting" isn't really an issue. If you neglect to vote then you must not care that much about being counted in support of that person.

How do you see it being gamed in a way that the current 4-year cycle isn't just as bad or worse?

I think the potential for a long term presidency would encourage longer term planning actually. I think the average person has the potential to be much more engaged than they currently are. Don't you think "I do my political duty and then I don't have to pay attention for four years" allows politicians to get away with things they wouldn't be if they were at all times directly answering to their constituents and their constituents knew that? I think even that framing is giving too much credit to the idea that the masses are and always will be a bunch of NPC pawns.

I don't see why it would take time out of everyone's day. If your vote(s) haven't changed you don't have to go vote every single day to keep them the same. Turnout could be mandatory every x period of time, even if it means submitting a blank ballot.

Don't you think it's more likely we get someone generally liked and they stick around for 25 years or so with a high favorability?

Unironically why would it be a bad idea though?

Spoon-amore

I support this actually. They would be constantly accountable. You could marry this with approval voting (vote for as many as you like)

The "little steps" idea, though helpful in other places, doesn't really apply under surveillance capitalism. If one company gets some small bit of info about you they will sell that data to everyone else, and the government has access to those data as well. Being a little safer sometimes doesn't do much. You really have to go all the way or don't bother

I been ache'n for a banacon!

Breaking out the hard-C usually means you've broken from the american civic religion entirely though. It's hard to mesh being a neocon with that. The only people I know who do that are the "MAGA-Communists" and even then I don't think they really mean the "communism" part, they're just trying to be edgy.

Just put the entire field on a 50 mile long looping conveyor belt that slowly inches toward a huge stationary harvester machine that perpetually harvests, tills, and replants.

That cough was deeeeep in his lungs. Whatever they had him on to keep him upright had him red faced and manic too. Kinda scary.

Great work. I bet that was a great place to run!

I started running this year too. I had a couple big setbacks (the biting flies were nuts mid august and shin splints which took 2 months to fully heal, make sure your shoes aren't laced too tight!) but I have so much more energy day to day I know I can't ever stop now.

What app are you using there btw?

Linking a previous post of mine you don't necessarily need freedom to say anything at any time to anyone in order to have a right to knowing things that you want to/should know.

Are ya winnin' ty-son?

Probably best to run this kind of thing through an OCR and post the output instead, just in case something could be read through the top page.

You actually can get "leftist" as a result on those political compass tests that measure from "liberal" to "conservative" If you leave more than half the questions blank because they're completely politically incoherent or self-contradicting, that means you're a leftist!

How does it feel getting your balls colonized, colonizers?