A Perfect Marriage OF Freedom & Justice, Tradition & Modernity
(a REAL Solution to Terror)
realzoe@...
Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of
all voting,
"Ranked Ballot" ("RB", each voter ranking all candidates in order of
preference)
is "top-dead-center-counter-extremist" & more anti-terrorist than all
the recent
retrenchments combined. While RB would be equally useful for all
else, its real
power is perhaps most clearly shown in the case of potential tribal-
civil war,
as in Iraq. Unless the 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
or multi-ethnic city. RB would be equally useful for all other
parliamentary
&/or presidential systems, collective leaderships, tribal groupings,
religious
confessions, parties & associations as well. Because it gives
minorities a real
say in which majority member gets chosen, RB is the only thing that
will lead
them to support any plan more than confederation. Because it gives
all
combinations of programs, not just parties, an equal chance, RB is
the only
thing that's just. Because it provides real-time alternatives to all
proposals,
from wherever, it has brakes, reverse, 3D, hyper-drive & goes
sideways. More liberty and justice can be found in it than in any
ideology. Help put this idea, in time, to as many as possible. The
$15,000 cost of a single full-page ad in USA Today,
enough to put RB to virtually everyone involved on earth, would be
repaid in a
year & a half at the pre-9/11 US annual defense spending of $10,000
per family.
We imagine running on the single issue of RB, allowing a citizens'
advisory
board based on "Organized Communications" ("OC", small randomly
assigned
discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher levels by means of
RB til one
small group, exactly in the middle, remains) to guide us in the
rest. You do
the same, from the most local on up.
The "additive" form of RB is first choices being counted & then, if
noone has
50%+, the next choices being added in, & so on, until someone finally
does. RB
is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of the Preferential Ballot
Party, the
only practicable third party. How can we ask it of others if we do
not have it
ourselves?
"Zoe"