I am always happy to communicate with you about political structure, Dave, and — go ahead — you can call me junkie.

But let’s address something fundamental in your reasoning because I notice a fair amount of spin in your reply. I understand where you are coming from, but I am not sure if you can see this for yourself. I hope you see that I mean well, but I am going to describe your system in full-color.

Let me use this image to explain what I see first. Notice that, if the issue is green, that the red-and-blue system cannot take this color on as-is. Green will be spun to be either red, blue, anti-red, or anti-blue, or determined to be unimportant. Spinning is natural to the system. Green issues will not be addressed head-on and often they are not addressed at all because it is not recognized for what it is.

In proportional voting there is no fundamental spin. Green is green.

All colors in society can indeed take place at the table where the decisions are made. The green representatives will particularly speak up for green matters in clear language all can understand.

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I will not have to rely on a red or a blue representative for my green issue, or in the case of Tiered Democratic Governance I do not need to rely on that one local person picked by all to also speak up zealously well for me.

I am not spinning things when I say that no person can speak to all issues with the same zeal as if it concerned that person him- or herself. As such, TDG is the same system as winner-take-all. It will not recognize all colors of society. Certain affairs will remain unaddressed or remain unsatisfactorily so.

But next, and I am going to declare it full-color as I see it, your levels further up make no sense at all.

Winner-take-all can be seen as tennis, basketball, or name that sport in which two sides combat one another for the title. It’s tough as nails at the top.

Proportional voting is like cutting up a pie according to all votes. The knife truly cuts, especially at the top.

I have no idea what to imagine for the top in TDG. It is winner-take-all meets red riding hood. You have no wolf in your story. There is no hunter in your story.

In TDG, Red Riding Hood walks through the forests, visits her grandma, probably eats some cookies, goes home with more cookies and a give-my-love-to-Mum message, and that’s it.

The political forces are all green in your system.

I know your heart is in the right place, Dave, but you are not addressing the forces sitting in other places.

I know you like proportional voting. I am waiting for you to study it. Then we can have a good conversation about it and discuss what parts are truly good and what parts are not. We can then talk about red, blue, yellow, green, orange and purple.

I am looking forward to that conversation.