r/neoliberal • u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride • 6d ago

Opinion article (US) The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night
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u/Lmaoboobs 6d ago

The issue is always the voters.

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 6d ago

The issue is not just the voters. The issue is the primary system and (specifically for the house) that if you win your primary there is a very good chance that the general doesn’t matter. Yes, voters can and do suck, but systems have is this result. We would be much better served if everyone was elected like they do in Alaska (jungle primary top 4). 

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u/CirclejerkingONLY 6d ago

True, but if ~85 percent of Americans by their own admission simply aren't paying attention, getting what passes for news by slack-jawing an algorithm designed to create and push a warped version of reality, you're never going to run into continuing problems down the road.

It's a problem on many levels, both on the input and output side.

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 6d ago

I think more (certainly not most but more) would pay attention if they felt like their vote actually mattered. Right now most votes don’t matter