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The Reform That Worked and the Money That Killed It
Block 5, Article 4 © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. Ranked choice voting does one thing: it lets voters rank their preferences. First choice, second choice, third. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and those voters’ second choices are counted. The process continues until one…
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The Immune Response
Block 5, Article 3 © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. The two-party system has one reliable response to every serious challenge: it neutralizes the vehicle and buries the structural demand. The grievance gets acknowledged. The constituency gets absorbed, exhausted, or redirected. The arrangement survives. This has happened in every generation for 130 years,…
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The Wall Nobody Else Built
Block 5, Article 2 © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. Every functioning democracy made a choice about what its electoral system should produce. Germany chose coalition government — no party governs alone, which means every party has to be governable with. The selection pressure runs toward the center: a party that spends four…
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- The Wall Nobody Else Built
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- The trust fund and the tax base are the same number, counted twice.
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- What the Frozen Rooms Produced
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- When Did Congress Stop Representing the Country?
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