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Ranked Ballot (voters ranking candidates in order of preference) will bring us this &amp; all else: a real solution to terror, a perfect marriage of Freedom &amp; Justice, Tradition &amp; Modernity, Palestinian &amp; Jew, Free Market &amp; Communitarianism, all the fairness, payback &amp; make-up one could wish for, ecologically sustainable politics, what’s best for all workers, instant global women’s liberation, world-wide luxury, a rationalization of the drug wars, human unity, even integrity, what have you. RB is to the horse &amp; buggy two-party system as shopping in the Mall of America is to shopping in Soviet Russia. (The “additive” form of RB is to count the first choices &amp; if noone has 50%, to add in the next choices, &amp; so on until someone finally does.)<br /> RB lessens the power of the extremes, whether authoritarian, economic or sectarian, except through what they can gain by persuasion, which is only what’s just. 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