Mike Caulfield: Are you having difficulty deciding which option you like more?

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

I mean the thing about giving people options they actually like probably also applies

Are you having difficulty deciding which option you like more?

The US system has parties negotiate internally before the election, others have parties negotiate after the election. The US system passes the compromise to the voter, but neither case really gives you control of that process.

That said, psychologically people have gotten themselves into a weird place in US politics where voters participate in that internal negotiation then somehow decide they can just ignore the result of it, which is pretty odd.

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