• Skates@feddit.nl
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    6 hours ago

    It was getting in the way of people voting for the most populist person so they got rid of it. It’s now replaced with a combination of pavlovian reward system + “stay in line” reminders, so that voters can go for the simplest campaign promise (eg: make america great again), without struggling to understand if the ‘how’ can actually accomplish the ‘what’.