{"id":20876,"date":"2025-12-31T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20876"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:18:42","slug":"why-us-politics-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it-andrew-yang-ted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20876","title":{"rendered":"Why US Politics Is Broken \u2014 and How To Fix It | Andrew Yang | TED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US electoral system pushes politicians to the left and right due to primaries, where politicians need to win over a small number of more polarized voters. We can change this system into non-partisan ranked choice elections so that politicians&nbsp;don&#8217;t need to bend over for the extremes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why US Politics Is Broken \u2014 and How To Fix It | Andrew Yang | TED\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Ws3w_ZOmhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US electoral system pushes politicians to the left and right due to primaries, where politicians need to win over a small number of more polarized voters. We can change this system into non-partisan ranked choice elections so that politicians don&#8217;t need to bend over for the extremes. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Ws3w_ZOmhI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1287,431,372,198,428,489,784,1641],"class_list":["post-20876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-andrew-yang","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-electoral-system","tag-polarization","tag-primary","tag-ranked-choice-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20877,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions\/20877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}