Ranked-Choice Voting

There's a lot going on in the news right now. A lot of violence, a lot of climate change, a lot of wage disparity, a lot of discrimination... just a lot. We can combat these issues is by taking action locally, through protests community events, volunteering, and personal interactions/behavior. And, we can make other changes through our government.
Voting has gotten a bad rap because we always seem to be voting for the "lesser of two evils." It's not exciting, but necessary, because the greater of the two evils is pretty bad. Also, third party voting could throw the whole election into chaos and allow someone who nobody wanted to win to gain power.
Now, if we switched to ranked-choice voting we wouldn't have that problem. Everyone could vote for who they wanted, then, if that person didn't get the majority, then their second choice would come up. If there were several people in the race, the math would get more complicated, but it would still be better than what we have, which is awful. There's absolutely no reason why someone should be scared to vote for the person they want to vote for just because they're afraid it might get the bad guy elected. Ranked-choice voting would allow them to vote their conscious and maybe find out that they're not the only one who felt that way.

Also I'm wondering if it's possible the front-runners are only front-runners because people are afraid to vote for who they actually want in office. They're afraid that their person won't win, so they vote for the "obvious" candidate. Ranked-choice voting might give us a chance to see what the voter are actually looking for. Let's give it a shot.

Ranked-Choice Voting

Existence

This is a picture from the Hubble Telescope in 2004. Those are all galaxies. Think about the enormity of that. Galaxies. It's hard to fathom. Do you know how many stars and solar systems can exist within a single galaxy?
I think I'll just sit here and ponder our existence of a while.

The Black Panthers

Okay, I'm not talking about the movie "Black Panther," which I liked, this is The Black Panthers. They were a social organization designed to help the black communities in the 60s and that lasted until the mid-80s. In school, we're taught mostly about the disruptive part of the Black Panther Party, but not about all the good they stood for.
It's important now to remember that black communities are still being left behind. What the Black Panther were doing was providing meals, education, and health services to under served  communities. They were policing the police, making sure that cops in their neighborhoods couldn't randomly kill black people out on the streets. They were making their own communities better by standing up for equality and freedom and what was right.
Of course, for this they were demonized. Nobody wants to hear about the good you're doing if you're disrupting the status quo. Disinformation campaigns, arrests, and murders did their job in shutting it down. But you can't stop a movement forever.
Our world's grown smaller. Social media has joined us is a way never before possible. We can all see what's happening to our neighbors, and we can all stand up for what's right. It doesn't just have to be the Black Panthers by themselves. It doesn't just have to be Lemonade. This is about all of us, and if you don't see it, yet, you will. This boat is too small to pretend we're in it alone.

What You Don't Know About The Black Panthers | AJ+