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When a severe drought held the West Coast in its clutches in 2015, some government leaders could think of no better way to get people to conserve water than to encourage them to turn on each other through drought shaming the practice of publicly outing and humiliating perceived water wasters on social media.
The results should have been predictable.
As the Orange County Register reported, one person sarcastically posted, “Congratulations for watering the pavement,” along with a picture of a water puddle near a curb in Costa Mesa, California.
Another tweeted the photo of a bald man wearing sunglasses and watering roses in East Los Angeles. “This guy has been doing this daily since the drought began,” the post said.
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If ranked-choice voting belongs anywhere, it is in nonpartisan municipal elections. Salt Lake City will consider adopting this method at a meeting April 20, and the City Council probably ought to do it.
Use it for anything bigger than that, however especially congressional races and this otherwise intriguing way to vote will run straight into the buzzsaw of ultra-partisanship that defines so much of American politics these days.