Ari Berman on His New Book, Minority Rule
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- The GOP is undermining democracy all over the country. The will of the people is being subverted for a loud and active minority. In his new book, guest Ari Berman explains how and where this is happening in America. And, more importantly, what we can do to fight back.
We the people vote out MAGA GOP !
Another great one 😊
Excellent read Ari. Thank you Al.
Wow, Al, what a great guest Ari Berman is. Stellar discussion. Also, can't wait to see your new show coming up! Quite the stretch for you to play a senator, though ;)
I caught him on Democracy Now...sounds like a great book I'm sure Floridians will burn/ban it.
Don’t think negative
Thank you, Al. 🙏🏻🌾💕
Thanks Ari & Al! Great listening! Needs to be shared everywhere!
Great show indeed!
Thank you for this episode, Al! It WAS great.
One of the most informative podcasts available regarding our constitutional formation.
Wisconsinite here. The recent primary election contained two referendums on the ballot that were very confusing. The wording obfuscated the underlying goal of restricting the use of outside entities in the administration of elections. It will make it harder to hire non-governmental companies to count ballots, provide services to the election effort.
Thanks, good show.
Thank you Mr Franken. A lesson to all democracies.
Yeah. I just hope there won’t be one less democracy come next year
Thank for this Al and all the others. Very appreciated.
Come on Mr. Franken,,,,,,get yer butt back in the Senate !!!!! WE NEED YOU BACK !!!
Very interesting and informative interview. Thank you Ari and Al.
Good one, Al, but scary.
Thanks Ari & Al. I moved to a GOP district about 25 years ago. One pro is short lines at the polling station. My little town's Democratic district always has long lines. When we first moved, I waited 2 hours in the wrong line. The polling station was at a gun club (no kidding!). Democratic district 1 voted in a small basement where members cleaned their guns, etc. GOP district 2 was upstairs in a large dinning/dancing hall. All in, it took 15 minutes to vote upstairs. Learned to love the NRA banners, shrines to Reagan, and tax breaks.
Great discussion ❤
I've lived in two countries and voted in two countries, in Conservative and Liberal districts and the idea of waiting two hours to vote would have been scandalous. In Australia it's mandatory to vote. I never waited more than 15 minutes and got a hot dog at the end.
Wisconsinite here - can we talk about race in WI - that's what underlies a lot of what happened in 2010. Also "Welfare reform" in WI started with Tommy Thompson - in the 1980s. Discrimination against blacks and native Americans runs deep here - we spend a lot of time in the gerrymandered conservative state legislature disinvesting in the areas where minorities live.
I'm running out of superlatives for this podcast! So, I'll just say, "Yeah, it's good..."
Towards the end. Sounds like the former Confederacy
But a fishing license was valid Voter ID in Wisconsin.
I confess I ignored politics until 2016. This is a good tutorial on the struggle between Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, assuming Jeremy Bentham is the referee for the fight! More please.
Great show, Al. Thanks.
There is definitely something wrong when some people stand in line to vote for hours, and I, in my predominately white district, am in the voting booth within 5 minutes.
Hi Al
Everyone needs to read the poem "Mad Song" by Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen. Holds up disturbingly well.
If Americans should be pissed off about anything, it should be Citizen's United.
And ALEC.
Divorce ALEC!
This is why a state government should not be allowed to draw electoral maps. Electoral maps should only be drawn by an independent electoral commission.
You'd be a great President Al
This is why I hate it when people say we have "free and fair elections"...
American elections are expensive and unfair.
Dude! I didn't know you had a podcast!
In fact, until we have a system that all representatives and senators are monitored for all their communications we will will suffer this corruption
Great show as always. No one mentions all the HAND RECOUNTS that were done showing machines AND Election were fair and honest.
We need to do away with the Senate and expand the house dramatically
There should not be ANY DARK MONEY.
42:28 Yes! “Water Melon Man”
Join keith olbermann, david pakman, chris hedges combined your voice can become greater.
We were f*ed from the get go.
Unlimited dark money in campaigns destroyed the Republican party.
4:51
Al can you not afford a camera set up!?
Progressives remember what fellow Dems in the Ohio legislature did to Dennis Kucinich. One of the worst and most blatant cases of gerrymandering ever seen... Suddenly a highly popular Congressman had his District turned into spaghetti, with a large part of it now in Toledo 60 miles away from Cleveland, and facing 2 other popular incumbents. WHY did they do it? Because he was ordered by Pelosi to drop out of the presidential primaries (witnessed by several at a meeting in her office)... or else. The reason he could not be tolerated in that very close race was because his few Delegates would have been a spoiler for Obama and Ms. Clinton at the Convention ... which could then force the corporate wing to adapt some Progressive planks such as universal healthcare. So let's not pretend only Repugs do it, and reflect on Karma.
The Republicans did all this stuff first in North Carolina.
Extremest of any kind are exhausting
What's shocking to me is how ineffectual the Democrats have been. Talk about being asleep at the wheel.
Ya know…. For a change
95th!
Andy Samburg's brother
Berman doesn't understand the real cause of minority rule. Few people understand it, because Social Choice Theory is taught only at a few top universities (Caltech, Harvard, MIT, etc) to political science majors. The real cause of minority rule is the use of primitive voting methods that count only one majority (or one plurality). When only one majority (or plurality) is counted, it can often be a coalition of minorities on different issues, which undermines majority rule on those issues and on many other issues too.
Counting only one majority (or plurality) is also highly prone to spoiling... even when there are only two candidates, because when those two run it deters "better compromise" candidates from running, who would win head-to-head contests over both of those two. For instance, Larry Hogan (the moderate conservative popular former two-term governor of solid blue Maryland) would presumably defeat Biden head-to-head, and Hogan would presumably crush Trump head-to-head by a landslide. But in a 3-way race, it would falsely appear that Hogan is least popular, because he would be sandwiched between "left" and "right."
A recent example is the August 2022 special election in Alaska. Nick Begich finished in 3rd place using Ranked Choice Voting, which counted only one majority -- the 52% who ranked Mary Peltola over Sarah Palin. It failed to count the majority who ranked Begich over Peltola and the majority who ranked Begich over Palin. Extremist Palin lost by only a narrow margin, but she would have been crushed by a landslide if the large majority who ranked Begich over Palin had been counted.
The importance of counting multiple head-to-head majorities is understood by the world's most widely used voting method: the Robert's Rules procedure for voting on motions. To eliminate N-1 of N alternatives, Robert's Rules counts N-1 head-to-head majorities. Counting multiple head-to-head majorities is what makes Robert's Rules reasonably effective at defeating minority-preferred policies.
Robert's Rules says the use of Plurality Rule is usually not in an organization's best interests. But Plurality Rule is the voting method that Ari Berman would have us use to elect the President and Senators (and everyone else), as long as the "one person, one vote" principle he talks about is satisfied. Getting states to switch to a voting method that counts all the head-to-head majorities is MUCH more important than correcting minor violations of the "one person, one vote" principle.
Two party preferred would clearly fix many of the problems.
>MichaelBrodie68 : No, "two party preferred" counts only one majority, like other primitive voting methods do. It's another name for Ranked Choice Voting, which used to be known as Instant Runoff Voting until its proponents changed its name after the spoiling fiasco in the 2009 election of the mayor of Burlington Vermont, to try to hide its track record of spoiling. It's highly prone to spoiling, and it doesn't create a strong incentive for politicians to support majority-preferred policies because its winning coalition can often be a coalition of minorities on different issues.
37:02 re: ACA PSA: SinglePayer MedicareForAll 🙏🖖> public option 👍 > Obamacare / RomneyCare 👎 > pre-existing condition insurance purchase disqualification 😡🖕
Surprised there's no Ari Berman Wikipedia article. Hey, Wikipedians…
OH COME ON - THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CONTRARIAN COMMENT ON ANY OF YOUR PODCAST COMMENTS EXCEPT MINE.
It sure sounds fake when I scroll down and down as far as I go and just see brownosing nonsense. This is supposed to be a discussion forum.
It's a duopoly, Al. And a pathocracy. As a Harvard man, you're smart enough to know that.
QUESTION: Back in the days when only white men with property could vote, exactly how much property did they have to have to vote?
Racism. It always comes back to racism in the US.
Too many ads Al can’t listen to this
Party of absolute can'ts
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It's amazing how uninformed, and even ignorant, Al Franken is during this interview. Almost every comment he made on critical legislation he did not know about.
His book must be about the Israel lobby block?
Calls for socialism ended this county
Reagan ended this country.
Grow up.
@@robertbritt6134 I agree with your comment
yes franken it is easy for you to say especially when you say things that contradict each other .. so israel has the right to 'respond' but you never say how and then accuse them of acting poorly when in fact the operation has kept losses low .. and why do you repeat the numbers from hamas about deaths when it has been shown that they are falsified and never report the terrorists killed .. and why aren't you demanding the return of hostages & hamas surrender to end the suffering ? you don't because you know they won't listen .. your former protests over vietnam is nothing like this war so don't try to equate them .. and if you'd be going to harvard now you'd be blocked from campus and having to fear being beaten up .. yes your alma mater ..
@direwolf6234 You claim the numbers of dead are reported by Hamas. That is not strictly true. It is very important to recognize the challenges in keeping an accurate count. Deaths/casualties are being g tallied by the hospitals in Gaza. But their system (computers) has been disrupted by bombings. The count is a “best available methods” fusion of Hospitals (under the government of the Palestinian Authority…which suggests your notion that Hamas is supplying the numbers) combined with journalists reports.
It is patently disingenuous to say that Al or others are simply taking Hama’ death toll numbers at face value. The numbers are broadly reported by any number of sources.
Boring podcast today
Thanks Vlad.