Stacking the Elections
What to know: The Left has a new tactic for permanently fixing elections: ranked-choice voting.
The TPPF take: Proponents say that RCV is more inclusive and encourages more participation.
“But our findings suggest the system can, in many cases, lead to disenfranchisement due to ‘ballot exhaustion,’ which occurs when all of the voter’s preferences have been eliminated, but the count continues—essentially making that voter’s ballot useless,” says TPPF’s John Bonura. “Many states are realizing how slow, confusing, and disenfranchising this process is, and have banned it before it can take hold. Texas needs to be one of these states.”
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Protecting Kids
What to know: Evidence continues to mount that smartphones and constant access to the internet has affected our children’s mental health.
The TPPF take: Social media distorts our sense of reality. This is especially true for young people.
“We refuse to leave our digital enclaves and instead accept our state of being shackled to our smart devices, TVs, computers, and other screens—in our dark, damp, shadowy, lonely caves,” says TPPF’s David Dunmoyer. “We’re checking our phones hundreds of times a day and spending the equivalent of a 40-hour work week on digital devices every week. Call it convenience, familiarity, addiction, or anything you like, but since the advent of smartphones, we simply aren’t experiencing reality like we once did.”
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You’ll Buy It and Like It
What to know: Sales of electric vehicles are slumping, but the Biden administration is undeterred. It will continue to try to push American families into EVs, whether they want them or not.
The TPPF take: Automakers can’t sell what consumers don’t want.
“The Biden administration’s stringent fuel economy standards and regulatory manipulations are driving American automakers toward bankruptcy and adding thousands of dollars to the cost of every gasoline vehicle,” says TPPF’s Brent Bennett. “Rolling back these subsidies and burdensome regulations would save consumers money and stop the auto industry from falling off a financial cliff.”
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