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This was a fascinating podcast. I might even listen to it twice!

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Ranked Choice Voting or Instant Runoff Voting plus open primaries can be enacted on both a State and Local level in most of the US. Enactment mitigates the sway of a minority base as well as demonizing the competition and since every winning candidate requires more than 50% of the vote; encourages support for those elected officials.

Six years ago Trever Noah aired this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPrJxTvgdQ to millions of viewers with apparently little effect.

In addition to calling the MAGA party the “CRAZY” party people should be calling reproductive health restricting states “Slave States” since the only way to restrict the rights to healthcare needed by a sex and class of citizens (pregnant women) is bondage or imprisonment be that legal or actual.

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