Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

And if you didn't already hear it from my voice, Hot Damn, I'm excited.

First, it's finally tweed weather.

Whenever the temperature drops below 60, my will to live skyrockets.

I am currently hoping to live to the year 2087,

which is a 60 year increase over last month.

But mainly, though, mainly, I am excited because today we're finally going to meet fellow political orphan, Andrew Yang.

I thought he was a fascinating guy during the 2020 election.

I like him.

I think I was actually, if I can dain to call myself a public figure. I was the last

public figure to endorse him for president before he dropped out in New Hampshire in 2020 which I guess I hold myself accountable for. In any event, we follow

each other on Twitter and I have deemed him countless times over the last two years, but he's finally

come to his senses and will join us political orphans momentarily.

Because it turns out Andrew Yang is also a political orphan. Now you might be thinking, hey wait a minute, Andrew Yang, didn't that

guy run for president as a Democrat? Did he win? Is he president? Am I president? First, no. Andrew Yang didn't win. Yet.

Second, Yang recently left the Democratic Party to form his own third party predominantly built around

electoral reform and I think he is spot on.

There are issues that I disagree with him on, mostly economic stuff, some media issues, but on the subject of electoral reform, of governance, specifically, rank choice voting and open primaries, he is fighting the good fight.

And he's now outside of that two-party system that he is bucking against.

It's odd that so few power players and the Republican and Democratic

parties ever want to change the system to make it easier for third parties to compete.

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