[ SECRET POST #2688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2688 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Frozen]


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03.
[Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway]


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04.
[Utopia]


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05.
[Prison Architect]


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06.
[One Piece]


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07.
[Orphan Black]


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08.
[Craig Ferguson]


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09.
[Sarah Rees Brennan]


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10.
[Knights of Sidonia]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]










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Comments

Re: Political rants here!

[(Anonymous)]

It would be much less predictable and more varied, certainly more entertaining, probably a little more pushed towards the extremes. But it wouldn't change presidential politics at all, and of course there's still the fundamental political landscape of the country to contend with - no systemic change is going to affect that a certain number of people think thus and a certain number of people think not thus.

If you want to change presidential politics, you'd want to change to a parliamentary system, probably. If you want to change the fundamental outlook of the country you'd want... I don't know, magic?

Re: Political rants here!

[forgottenjester]

Mmm, but it would allow it to be easier for third parties to thrive though. Or am I completely wrong in that? And if that's true wouldn't that then affect the presidential election? I mean, if you could actually have a third strong runner...

Re: Political rants here!

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that our system allows only one winner per election/position and awards seats to party members based on individual wins. It's impossible to have any more than two viable parties in such a system, for two interrelated reasons: first, people tend to vote strategically rather than based on their actual views, and second, parties that don't appeal to the center (which is where most people wind up, either because they actually are moderate or because they're, well, voting strategically) can never muster up of enough votes to break in. So, you wind up with a party that's left-of-center and a party that's right-of-center, but they both look pretty similar, and they absorb certain third party platforms and kind of shift around in this very broad middle area.

Even with run-offs, it would still wind up looking this way as long as the underlying structure stayed the same. The only way to change it, like someone else said, is to move to proportional representation a la parliamentary systems.