Prop 1. A 5 gallon bucket of bad ideas. September 25, 2024. Introduction.

I would like to take a moment, dear reader, to explain why ranked choice voting is a really bad

idea.

I'm doing this because certain malevolent forces have managed to get the option of approving said ranked choice voting onto the ballot this November in Idaho.

I said that this was a really bad idea, but do not wish to mislead you by underselling the badness of it.

If bad ideas were a monarchy, this would be their king. If bad ideas were

cliches, this would be a stitch in time and a bird in the bush. If bad ideas were a five-gallon

bucket, there would be at least ten gallons all over the floor. I suggest you read through this

piece by Dan McLaughlin over at NR, then read through the rest of what I have to say below, and then in the conclusion I may tell you what

I really think about all this. All this in addition to the fact that if bad

ideas were at dogs breakfast, this would be a half-eaten taco behind a dumpster in a Mexico

city barrio, explaining the mechanics of this bad idea. Those in favor of this travesty will call it a proposal for a quote the Salem cigarettes used to do in their ads. Springtime Fresh.

Fresh Mountain Air seems brisk enough and all bracing and healthy like, but since I'm tired of this

metaphor, it is simply the expensive paint to give the haunted house some curb appeal.

This would not be an open primary according to the

traditional definition, but should be called, more accurately, a jungle primary.

And by jungle I'm not referring to the beauty of exotic butterflies, but rather to

the snakes, to the large and slimy ones.

All of this is being brought to you courtesy of Prop 1, and so you should consider it your duty

to show up on election day in order to vote no against this beast from the lagoon, all while singing at least two or three

imprecatory Psalms. If passed, how will it go? How will it work? All the candidates, no matter what

party they belong to, are all in the same primary election.

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