🚀 go-pugleaf

Blind party allegiance is so horrible.  It's similar to what we have
right now with PoUSA & FCC chairperson:  nepotism.  I used to think
nepotism wasn't as bad as people said it was (there is great advantage
in refined derivative generations, which is still true), but what I
didn't understand is that the word means "favoritism shown to a
relative (as by giving an appointive job) on a basis of
*relationship*", which *is* obviously bad, since it is the incorrect
use of a particularly bad kind of favoritism that is bad, not the
underlying values of the people being picked (which lack of is usually
the problem) that is necessary in nepotism; it's certainly bad when
done regardless of merit, as it is being done with those two.
Luck of merit is no way to depend on nepotism being "balanced out",
and at least with the FCC chairperson (and probably with PoUSA too,
although the alternatives weren't that great due to problems I'm also
responding to here), we clearly lost.

Voting according to value assigned to each candidate with almost no
filing fee for candidates and no primaries (no parties) allowing
millions of candidates (exclusively via computer) rather than having
to tally one entire whole vote for a fixed whole number of candidates
from a short list of incompetents is an experiment I've been wanting
to see done in politics for a long time.  Has any place tried this?
I'm actually glad that the recall has eliminated parties; however, it
doesn't have the feature of voting values per candidate.  If anyone
thinks the big breasted lady has some value, they can't just give her
a 3/23rds vote; they must give her one whole vote, or none at all
(with that one whole vote possibly counting against her).

Of course, what if the big breasted lady has no net beneficial value,
and we accidentally elect her using such an above system, because of
unconscious boob recognition on the part of those who pay attention to
that sort of thing or to those who do?  She seemed to have more
integrity than the other candidates I saw, but I didn't see much.