I wasn't - but looked it up. Sounds like another reason for ranked choice voting. Thanks for sharing.

4) There is little political will among the party elites to make the hard choices necessary... some exceptions are David Hogg (Leaders We Deserve), AOC, Bernie Sanders and Mamdami
All of this ... in my opinion, of course

Now we need a conversation about what happens "after the flood"... or more likely "during the ongoing storm/drought/flood/anarchy"

3) The system is due for collapse. Any party platform that doesn't acknowledge this is just burying its head in the sand. And by "system", I mean modern civilization. We are past the point of "reversing" the negative trends. That would have been a timely conversation in 1975.

2) Pushing for Democratic candidates that "hold the center" leads to candidates like Joe Biden - and leads to poor decision making by politicians

Here are a few things I believe...
1) We need more than 2 parties. Two parties forces polarization and pushes candidates to the middle. We MUST enable a system like ranked-choice voting or we'll never break out of the cycle we are in

Finding common ground is the holy grail. Organizations like better angels and living room conversations are focusing on this. For me, the real juice is through IRL convos that are face to face. I want to see more town halls and public discussion about solutions!

I really love his wisdom and have found it to be very helpful.