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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      but systems aren't eternal, and one of the biggest factors in their rise and fall is technology

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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      the kind of 18th century western european autocrat the framers were trying to design against did not exist a few centuries earlier

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      the best argument I've seen for abolishing the electoral college is that the whole swing state dynamic vastly reduces the leverage needed to flip a presidential election

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      unfortunately this is never sincere because all pro/anti-popular vote election arguments are proxies for "I want (rurals/urbans) to have more power"

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      but whatever. it's still a good argument, and one that recognizes the situation on the ground has changed as a result of technology

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    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      likewise arguments for expanding franchise, direct election of senators, etc were partly moral but partly technological, that people were overall better informed than in previous eras

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    7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      and thus it was safe and reasonable to throw off fetters placed on the voting mechanic very specifically to guard against public insanity or foolishness

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    8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      by my estimation they were wrong, but there you go

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    9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      what so much of the discourse about facebook/cambridge analytica/muh russians/etc misses is that maybe this speaks to a failure of the system to remain robust

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    10. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      if it is possible to accurately predict a voter's decision and to craft messaging to change that decision from basic demographic information and a five-dimensional personality test

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Mar 17

      maybe entrusting decisionmaking authority to them in the first place is something worth considering the merits of

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        2. Chris K. N.‏ @nordtomme Mar 18
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          Good, interesting thread. I think there are good ideas out there about how eg technology might help build something better that still upholds humanist ideals.

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        3. Chris K. N.‏ @nordtomme Mar 18
          Replying to @nordtomme @alicemazzy

          However, you may want to be careful using Democracy as shorthand for US system. There are other working implementations of Democracy. Parliamentary systems come to mind. They allow for more pol. parties, more compromises, less risk of autocrats, better rep. of minorities, etc

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        4. Chris K. N.‏ @nordtomme Mar 18
          Replying to @nordtomme @alicemazzy

          Not exactly perfect, nor immune to manipulation or suboptimal outcomes, of course, but when fixing the system let’s not throw out what we have that works before learning from it.

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        1. scientism‏ @mr_scientism Mar 18
          Replying to @gender_dude_69 @alicemazzy

          There are no women on Twitter.

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        1. holdplease 🌌‏ @oldhayeasplay Mar 24
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          So. You're a badass.

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        1. Leonardo Serrano‏ @leonardofls91 Mar 18
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          I'm curious. What changes do you have in mind for the system?

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        1. Ayyyyyyyyyn Randoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!‏ @SOXCITEDTOTWEET Mar 18
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          Unaccountable decision-making power* People are much more reasonable when making decisions about their own property

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        2. monday‏ @12d855 Mar 18
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          You can ponder that if you have at least a concept of an alternative. Until then, the only recourse is limiting authority which is pretty much what the framers and classical liberals came up with.

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        3. monday‏ @12d855 Mar 18
          Replying to @12d855 @alicemazzy

          But yeah, it's troubling to see a particular form of government going from an instrument to something worth protecting for its own sake.

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        1. Eduardo Campos‏ @eBrennandCampos Mar 18
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          Great thread. Thanks for sharing.

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        1. Franklin Rapport‏ @horrdorr Mar 17
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          When the Republic was founded, people had not yet conceived of voting other people's money into their own pockets and corporations had not attained personhood. However, with directed narrative the herd can be turned.pic.twitter.com/12QmP30G86

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        2.  🚲 🚎 🥑‏ @crzwdjk Mar 17
          Replying to @alicemazzy @alt_kia

          And it's not the average voter that matters but the marginal one in the marginal state, one of the perils of the electoral college and an FPTP system.

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        3.  🚲 🚎 🥑‏ @crzwdjk Mar 17
          Replying to @crzwdjk @alicemazzy @alt_kia

          We really need to take a hard look at the mechanics of the system and nobody seems to be doing that because the Constitution is the holy writ of our civic religion or something.

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