A Georgist based third party would kick ass - with housing affordability being a cross party huge issue; Georgist have fact based analysis and solutions that the American cirizen would like, while the duopoly barely understand root causes let alone presenting solutions. Candidate (G) let's make them happen!
New parties only work if you reform the election system first. The Forward Party has been advocating for alternatives like Approval or Ranked Choice. They used an Approval election for a State Senate seat in Utah recently.
As long as most elections are done under the lousy "vote for one, most votes win" plurality system, third parties have a lot of trouble gaining traction, because your preferred third party is a "spoiler" against whichever major party you see as the lesser evil. If you switch to an Approval or Range or Ranked ballot, with a reasonable tabulation system, that changes.
Electing our legislatures using Proportional Representation / multi-member districts also would help a ton.
Yep. Implemented successfully in Saint Louis. Fargo was happy with it too until their state legislature forced them to go back to plurality because Approval was electing moderates instead of MAGA chuds.
Another reason why BTR can have greater long-run value is the owners are likely to pursue upzoning in the future. NIMBY homeowners would not. This creates a wedge where the value of the assembled land is higher to developers than splitting it among NIMBYs.
If developers could trust city planners to be YIMBY the wedge wouldn't exist.
Capitalism, in the absence of some force preventing accumulation of claims to land, will eventually devolve into feudalism.
In the twentieth century, the mechanism that cracked up great accumulations of wealth was the World Wars. I would prefer we find some less violent way of handling it. Although our current oligarchs seem to REALLY want a repeat of that.
A Georgist based third party would kick ass - with housing affordability being a cross party huge issue; Georgist have fact based analysis and solutions that the American cirizen would like, while the duopoly barely understand root causes let alone presenting solutions. Candidate (G) let's make them happen!
New parties only work if you reform the election system first. The Forward Party has been advocating for alternatives like Approval or Ranked Choice. They used an Approval election for a State Senate seat in Utah recently.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/12/utahs-forward-partys-first-of-its-kind-preference-poll-picks-a-winner-to-replace-sen-thatcher/
https://www.11chooses.com/
As long as most elections are done under the lousy "vote for one, most votes win" plurality system, third parties have a lot of trouble gaining traction, because your preferred third party is a "spoiler" against whichever major party you see as the lesser evil. If you switch to an Approval or Range or Ranked ballot, with a reasonable tabulation system, that changes.
Electing our legislatures using Proportional Representation / multi-member districts also would help a ton.
Approval voting FTW. Has almost all the benefits of Concorcet while being far simpler. It just changes the radio button to a checkbox.
Yep. Implemented successfully in Saint Louis. Fargo was happy with it too until their state legislature forced them to go back to plurality because Approval was electing moderates instead of MAGA chuds.
Another reason why BTR can have greater long-run value is the owners are likely to pursue upzoning in the future. NIMBY homeowners would not. This creates a wedge where the value of the assembled land is higher to developers than splitting it among NIMBYs.
If developers could trust city planners to be YIMBY the wedge wouldn't exist.
Capitalism, in the absence of some force preventing accumulation of claims to land, will eventually devolve into feudalism.
In the twentieth century, the mechanism that cracked up great accumulations of wealth was the World Wars. I would prefer we find some less violent way of handling it. Although our current oligarchs seem to REALLY want a repeat of that.
"That freeway didn’t just move traffic. It created land value."
Good God, please stop using this type of construction. It's bad writing, cheap and lazy, and it doesn't even convey the point.
And this: . "Sprawl is not just a planning failure. It is a tax policy failure." Another trope that needs to be rewritten!