Hopeful Skeptic: Reflections on politics and more

**************************** The most straightforward of the changes that I have been musing about would be to change the candidate nominating process of the major political parties. I think that we would probably benefit by moving away from a system where these nominations are determined exclusively by party primaries and returning to the pre-1970’s model where…

The final possibility that I want to put forward is perhaps the least satisfactory, and in some way the most extreme; however, it is also perhaps the most likely, and certainly the most talked about among the ideas that I’ve suggested. That would be a partition of the United States into a “Red America” and…