Academic Elitists Have Invented A New Way To Rig Voting In The Future
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Enter “Quadratic Voting”…
Quadratic Voting is the creation of a former professor from the University of Chicago and a current senior researcher at Microsoft Research in New York by the name of Glen Weyl. Weyl is yet another “rising star” in elitist academic circles being increasingly promoted within the mainstream. He is a person they will probably one day be describing as a “genius of our time” in the next 5-10 years, which is a dubious distinction these day given that the mainstream also props up painful fakes like Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson as “geniuses”. Weyl’s public exposure began after co-writing a book entitled ‘Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism And Democracy For A Just Society’; a treatise which desperately tries to present itself as almost “libertarian” and championing free markets, while at the same time declaring private property a “monopolistic” injustice (private property being a key pillar of free markets) that should be dissolved into a communistic public commons. The book also contains Weyl’s explanation of Quadratic Voting and why he believes the system of one-person-one-vote must be changed.
Quadratic voting is essentially a way to transform the voting process into a game, even more so than it already is. In a recent experiment by the Democrat controlled caucus of the Colorado House of Representatives, Dem. legislators were each assigned 100 voting “tokens”. One token can be used to buy one vote on one issue or one piece of legislation, but two votes can be cast on a single piece of legislation for a cost of four tokens, and ten votes for 100 tokens. Once a legislator runs out of tokens, they run out of votes.
Now consider quadratic voting for a moment, and how it turns voting into a game. First, it assigns tokens or value to votes; Weyl even muses that these voting tokens could create a vote economy in which votes are bought and sold like a commodity…though he believes enforcing a universal basic income would solve the problem of the rich buying up all the votes. Well, thank goodness for that….
Second, as in the game of Go, a party with a majority in a legislature or forum would have an immediate advantage over the other party, but they could be easily handicapped. How? The elites would merely need to control a few of those legislators (instead of trying to control a majority of them). As in Go, a few minor and deliberately made mistakes by these legislators in how they spend their vote tokens for the stronger party could cripple the ability of their party to successfully defeat an opponent on a new bill or law. By throwing the game, these few puppet legislators could allow the elites to predict the outcome of a vote every single time in such a subtle and nuanced way that the public might never realize what is happening. In other words, under quadratic voting a vast political and legislative machine could be maneuvered with minimal effort and minimal resources.
The entire system benefits the powers-that-be by creating a complex illusion that convinces the masses that voting is now incorruptible because legislators are psychologically compelled by cost vs. “zealotry”, or the strategy of the competition. But, as noted, by controlling a minority of legislators on either side of the game, the elites can dictate or predict the entire outcome of each vote using tiny and imperceptible “mistakes” to rig the contest. How this would translate to popular voting is not exactly clear, but it certainly changes the face of legislation forever.
Yes, in many ways voting today is already rigged, but not to such a refined degree as this. Quadratic voting is another futurist concept that is intended to assure the public that the problems of our system are being solved through peripheral changes and technological progress while failing to address the age old demons of elitism and globalism that are the true source of our misery.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/academic-elitists-have-invented-new-way-rig-voting-future
3 -PoserWeyl_PAGE(Do Not Delete)4/1/20153:01 PM441Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics
https://vanderbiltlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2015/04/Voting-Squared-Quadratic-Voting-in-Democratic-Politics.pdf
Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay—Quadratically
https://www.wired.com/story/colorado-quadratic-voting-experiment/
Maine congressman sues over ranked-choice voting
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181113/maine-congressman-sues-over-ranked-choice-voting