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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">Subject: [EM] IRV's adequacy depends on a two-party system</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "><div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><br>David Wetzel said:<br><br>s for center-squeezing, that's not really a problem in the US as a<br>
whole...<br>Third parties are too small and scattered.<br><br>[endquote]<br><br>MO: Ok, so David is saying that IRV is adequate adequate only in a two-party system.<br><br>dlw: David is saying,</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change [two-party dominated system in US]</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">and the courage to change the things I can change [rallying support of others around American forms of PR + IRV]</pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">and the wisdom to tell the difference between a dysfunctional two-party system and one that would "work".</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">dlw</pre></div></div>