I made a very dumb post on 𝕏 last night on the topic of ranked choice voting where I very poorly argued with horrid wording that the Founding Fathers devised a government that would structurally result in a two-party system by creating a winner-take-all structure. It’s deleted, but here goes the larger explanation:

Ranked choice voting purports to pick from a selection of party labels. On its surface, that sounds good. But it’s the camel’s nose in a tent, and its advocates explicitly say where RCV leads - a consensus-based system.

From the book Electoral Reform in the United States written by “democracy” scholars, Larry Diamond writes:

“This has led to a long-standing prominent scholarly and philosophical tradition arguing for the importance of a “culture of moderation, accommodation, cooperation, and bargaining among political elites,” so that laws can be made, budgets passed, and governing done even when there are sharp differences among opposing parties.”

Lee Drutman, in the same book:

“In multiparty systems, parties form coalition governments and voters feel warmly toward other parties in their coalition.”

In their views, the two-party system is responsible for gridlock and polarization.

Their cure via RCV is coalitions and “bargaining among political elites.” That phrase is theirs, not mine.

The Founders started from the opposite premise. They didn’t want power cooperating with power. Their stance was that power must be divided against itself.

Serious suspicions have arisen about the validity of the 2026 election: “Was this a 2020 rigged election all over again?

For millions of everyday Americans who put their faith in the ballot box, that is not a wild conspiracy theory; it is the screaming, unaddressed elephant in the room.

How are we supposed to look at sudden, unexplained shifts in long-standing conservative strongholds and swallow the official narrative without choking?”

The Democrats appear to have flipped dozens of congressional seats in the midterms, with many states shifting hard to the political left -- news that is almost too good to be true for America’s party of Socialism and Jihadism, especially after the 2024 repudiation of Biden/Harris policies, which were nowhere near as extreme as those proposed by the current slate of Democrat politicos.

We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it.

The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand.

Notice the word “brand,” not “product.”

Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.

It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does.

Here’s a name I haven’t thought about in a couple of years, and happily so: Ann Selzer.

Selzer, you’ll recall, was the longtime once-respectable pollster for the Des Moines Register whose career went down in flames amid the fallout from a horribly skewed 11th-hour 2024 presidential poll that showed Donald Trump trailing Kamala Harris 47-44 in the Hawkeye State.

For context, a June Register poll showed Trump up by four over Harris. And for even more context, Trump ultimately ended up winning Iowa... by 13 points.

Selzer’s poll, however grotesque, was neither clever nor original. In fact, she was something of an electioneering piker. Recall that just four years earlier, an infamous Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Basement Joe Biden leading Trump by 17 points in Wisconsin just days before the election.

The result in Wisconsin? Biden did indeed beat Trump… by half a point. Mission accomplished.

It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now. The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.

We don’t have time to process the Islamic riots across France before turning our attention to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup d’état.

While President Trump seeks peace between Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom prepares its citizens for WWIII and a Russian invasion.

The United States has elections, but Democrat seditionists and subversive members of the American Intelligence Community push for a “color revolution” to topple the Trump administration.

Big events happen every day, and we have scant opportunity to understand what they mean before another comes across our screens.