Electing Trump Will Not Stop the Corporatocracy

[liveonearth]

Listening to the media reports about Trump and Clinton, I understand the frustration of the majority of voters.  Most of us know that the "establishment" politicians, like Clinton, are part and parcel with the corporatocracy that has made our two party system a joke.  The two parties are simply different faces of the same government which is

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[anais_pf]

If we could switch over to instant run-off voting, also known as ranked voting, nobody would be afraid to vote for a third party candidate. Obviously that's not going to happen this time around.

[liveonearth]

How does that work?
Is anybody actively promoting it as a solution?

[anais_pf]

The Green Party is promoting it when it can. We Greens use it for all of our own internal elections (chair of the local party, etc.) and we love it. There does not seem to be a concerted effort to win over the American public to the idea; Greens are really grassroots and I think that's to our detriment sometimes. I wish we had more and better leadership, and I wish our leadership would heavily promote instant runoff voting.

Here's how it works:

Basically, when you vote, you rank the candidates in order of preference. When the votes are tallied, the candidate with the least votes is thrown out and her votes are redistributed to each voter's second choice. This process continues until one candidate has a majority. (In our local Green group, we also have the option of voting, and ranking, "None of the Above.")

The Brits had a referendum on enacting this method in 2011, which unfortunately lost. They called it "alternative voting" and this is a wonderful video that was made to explain it:

[liveonearth]

I like the concept! Are there any nations that use it? Too bad about the dissuading name in the British referendum....