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How to tackle political polarization?
Hostility between people who support different political parties — or partisan animosity — has increased markedly in the past few decades. How can we tackle this issue?
The million dollar question! i have a few ideas but not sure whether they actually work in practice:
1. not making democracy a "winner takes it all" type of process: instead of voting only for one person, we could use preferential voting (it's the case for the london mayor for example) which means politicians and political parties would have to go beyond their immediate voter target
2. looking at systems like in Nunavut where you don't have parties but only independents
3. making it more about policies and less about politicians? I just received this article which is quite interesting: https://www.noemamag.com/democracys-missing-link/
Range voting, let's say -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, would force candidates and parties to not only convince their voters, but also not to get a negative vote from other voters.
That's brilliant!
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Corruptions takes place everywhere and in every level, sadly.... there exist the perfect manipulators and the manipulatable ones who are waiting for any reward to sales their votes or services. As long this goes on Politics will get polarized. Here again education is a key point.
What kind of education? How would you disseminate it?