We imagine running on the single issue of Ranked Ballot (RB), allowing a citizens advisory board based on “Organized Communications” (OC) to guide us in the rest. You do the same, from the most local on up. OC is small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher levels by means of RB until one small group at the top necessarily names the next winner of the next election, thereby installing preferentiality virtually instantly, & inevitably globally, no matter what ladders are pulled up. Should your group be the first, lest others avail themselves of this great advantage on the sly?
The “additive” form of RB is the ranking of all candidates by each voter. The first choices are counted & if noone has 50% then the next choices are added in, & so on, until someone finally does. It is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of the Preferential Ballot Party, the only practicable third party, whose self-organizing principle is Organized Communications. How can we ask it of others if we do not have it ourselves? Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of all voting, RB is “top-dead-center-counter-extremist” & thus more anti-terrorist than all the many recent retrenchments combined. While RB would be equally useful for all else, its real power is perhaps most clearly shown in the case of the potential civil war in Iraq. Unless the Iraqi Parliament comes to select its Prime Minister by RB, it may not hold, & the world will be in danger of going to war over some oil well. (It would be a useful improvement for all other parliamentary systems as well.) Because it gives the Iraqi minorities a real say in which Shia gets chosen, RB is the only thing that will encourage them to support any plan more than perfectly inadequate con-federation. Because it gives all combinations of programs, not just parties, an equal chance of winning, it is the only thing that is completely just, lightfooted & self-controlled, for Iraqis & everyone else. No more shifting back & forth between extremes & no more need to be afraid. Because it will always provide real time alternatives to all proposals it is something everyone could & should support. Both more liberty AND more community can be found in RB than in any ideology. Help put this powerful idea, in time, to as many as possible. The $15,000 cost of a single full-page ad in USA Today, enough to put it to virtually everyone involved on earth, would be repaid to a single person in a year & one half at the approximate US defense annual spending rate of $10,000 per family, exclusive of “emergency appropriations”.
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