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While diversity may be a positive factor when it comes to food, art or music, it is not a given that diversity is a positive trait of government. What I see happening to Portland is something that I have seen taken place in many organizations that I have been a part of, inaction due to the dilution of responsibility. With so many voices demanding input into policy-making, what will happen is no one shoulders responsibility. Shared blame and finger-pointing will be the backdrop for lack of progress.

The founding fathers were prescient in making our nation's govt to be a republic instead of a democracy. The idea is to elect a few capable people to make the tough decisions, instead of lack of consensus and exigent decisions based on the loudest voice.

Also, rank-choice voting is just a polished turd. Flaky loser candidates lose for a reason, and it's not fair to just have their supporters' votes be redistributed to other candidates, while everyone else is deprived a similar opportunity to cast a reconsidered vote. A long string of "flakes" can defeat the top sensible candidate after repeated rounds of vote redistribution.

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