Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers

I'm not going to pretend I have the answers, but one very big factor in where we're at currently, in terms of Donald Trump, the "Two-Party system", and the warmongering we've seen throughout the past decades, has a lot to do with HOW we view government and leadership - which is, in large part, a function of our method of voting. Again, our method of voting informs more than we often realize.

Plurality AKA First-Past-the-Post voting practically teaches people to think in a binary, extremist manner. It teaches false dichotomies and practically forces people to choose one extreme or another. It teaches black-and-white thinking.

Plurality voting is like driving a car with no seat belt or air bags. It's like being forced to eat boiled hot dogs and gruel everyday - rather than, say, fruits, vegetables, and grains.

Voting is a major component to the very foundation and ideation of democracy, government & leadership, and legislation itself.

Among many other changes needed, we need to make a change to that - to voting, to representation.

One of the very best options andor alternatives available - one that can enable the other changes via representation, the subsequent appointments, etc... and even popular psychology - is known as STAR (Score, Then Automatic Runoff) voting (https://www.equal.vote/starvoting) -- and is being voted on in Oregon this November. It's realistic, viable, and powerful. Using ballot initiatives and referendums, we can circumvent the two-party duopoly/stranglehold and associated corruption, thereby taking a necessary step towards a government not held hostage by extremists and warmongers and self-centered capitalism.

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