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cool… and your plan is? because if its anything but keep voting for dems until you change the system then i’ve got cheeto shaped news for ya bud: that’s how ya fucking got this mess
With state level electoral reform, multiple political parties could compete on who could defeat the republicans the best. If any of the new parties don't do well, people could be free to transfer their vote to the democratic party should they choose to do so. All free of a spoiler effect.
You know, democracy. Democracy is not "vote for my preference or else. That is a hostage situation and should be treated like the crisis it truly is. I want town halls every day taking questions on what voting system to use. Every day until it's passed. At the bare minimum in the vast majority of blue states.
Republicans are moving to protect First Past the Post voting in states they control. Florida made Ranked choice voting illegal. Alaskan Republicans tried to switch their state from Ranked Choice Voting back to FPTP because Ranked choice voting helped keep Sarah Palin out of office.
Why are the democrats using the voting system that Republicans prefer? Isn't that the most ultragigagigantic red flag ever if Republicans like something? Especially when it comes to how we vote.
I could tolerate putting the democrats on my ballot as a backup. But I cannot tolerate shitlibs smuggly telling me I dont get to vote how I want and then doing nothing to change the voting system between elections. And not just this last election. Every election throughout my life.
These days the democrats think they got us so locked down, so whipped, so desperate that they can just genocide whoever the fuck they want and they expect us to not only suck and swallow, but to thank them for the opportunity. Big smiles to, or else youre a secret a Russian Republican agent!
Fuck that.
Fuck that forever.
We can have a choice in the voting booth. We can have multiple chances to defeat the republicans. We don't need to beg for representation in government. Its tax day, and we should not accept taxation without representation. The republicans, we all know how they feel about democracy. How do the democrats feel about democracy? This is bare minimum shit here. If we can't pass this purity test, Republicans don't need to do anything to topple democracy in this nation, it already doesn't exist.
We will see how many blue states pass this crucial voting reform before the next election in a year and some. I don't have any real expectations. People do what's easy. And what's easier then doing nothing and screaming how it's the most important election ever and voters dont get to vote how they want?
Again.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
totally agree! change the system! go! do that! but while you have the system you have, face reality: you vote D or you get R. is it a shit reality? absofuckinglutely it is… but deal with it or we all - including those of us who can’t vote in US elections - lose badly
Blue no matter who caused this, not whatever jumble of nonsense you just wrote
No, actually 'Blue no matter who' quite literally would have prevented this, but a bunch of people decided that a protest vote over a genocide on the other fucking side of the fucking planet being done by a different fucking nation lead by a different fucking leader was a smart and morally correct move.
Short-sighted single issue dipshits across the political spectrum enabled this, just in different ways.
I see you’re still trying to blame voters instead of the shitty blue candidate. It’s quite tiresome.
Oh, it's completely the fault of the voters. It's also the fault of the DNC's messaging. The crappy economy (job markets and inflation/unchecked price gouging) meant that the uninformed were just voting for "Not the Party that's Currently In Power" because the cost of groceries and rent was outstripping their paychecks, and the messaging coming from the DNC was completely tangential to that.
Regular everyday Joes don't follow politics. Just because we do doesn't make us representative of the general population. That sort of thinking is what made Trump's victory a surprise - both times.
Agree with everything you said except that it is not the voters fault.
A lot of people actively avoid learning new things in general, which includes learning about current events and politics.
Sooooooo intentional ignorance isn't their fault? Whose is it then? edit: Sorry, that was snarky. I know people are encouraged to maintain their ignorance in this day and age. In my opinion, it amounts to shirking responsibility, but I'm aware that other opinions are also valid.
When you become informed, you realize that it was your fault. But yelling at people that they are stupid and ignorant I don’t think helps enlighten them…probably entrenches them and makes them question their beliefs even less…
Agreed. I'm not likely to say it to their face... but here, I'm preaching to the choir and I can be a bit salty about it.
Ah, I see that when you are stuck with pie when you wanted ice cream, you just said "fuckit, let the orange racist nazi felon fascist dictator destroy the country."
You’re still blaming voters instead of the shitty candidate 🤷♂️ good luck attacking people to get them to join your side
I'm not attacking them to get them to join my side. I'm pointing out the absurd degree of ass-backwards caveman logic being used to justify letting trump have the presidency. Ultimately, I don't expect to convince anyone dumb enough to come out into public and argue your point, but I do intend to expose those people as short-sighted fools for getting us into this mess.
You're not the goal, you're the playing field. The people who were on the fence and then didn't vote because of manufactured confusion about which candidate was going to be the best vote for Palestine are the target audience here.
I’m neither of those things sister or brother, but you are making the problem worse by attacking voters worried about their families.
If the Dems didn’t have such a shitty candidate they would have won. Most voters would rather see a random comatose patient than Trump as president, but Biden couldn’t meet that bar, and Harris was a 💩 candidate to begin with. She didn’t even get the bare minimum 15$ minimum wage she campaigned on as vice president, and 15$ isn’t even enough to live on anymore and most Americans support it lol