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The reason ranked confuses people is that most explanations describe the mechanics without establishing why those mechanics exist.
What you need to understand first: ranked works the way it does because of a principle that applies more broadly than this specific case.
When you internalise that, choice starts making more sense. In practice this means: the order of operations has real consequences.
Historical precedent is a useful guide but not a perfect predictor of outcomes.
Applied to voting: the principle holds even when the surface details look different.
Snalysis from multiple ideological perspectives reveals blind spots in any single view.
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