• AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    You’re never going to get meaningful change voting third party under the American voting system. A first past the post voting system will ALWAYS result in a two party system. If we hurt the current parties by voting third party enough to kill one, we’ll just replace the dead party. It might be an improvement at first, but eventually, all the same forces push us back into the same end result after a while.

    The US needs major reform to the electoral system. Switch from first past the post to something like ranked choice or approval voting. Abolish the fucking electoral college, which some states are attempting with a law to automatically grant all electoral college votes to the popular vote winner if enough states agree to make it guarantee the winner. Expand and guarantee access to mail in voting. And indirectly, reinvest in the fucking education system.

    Of course, with full control of the federal government going to Republicans who benefit from all these problems, there’s no way any of it gets addressed now.

    • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world
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      45 minutes ago

      None of what you point out would be addressed under dem leadership.

      Now to counter point, we do not have a whig party.

      We’ve had first past the post the entire time.

      We do not have a whig party.

      We did. As one of the two options. Now we don’t.

      Voting third party works. Period. Every bit of propaganda you willingly repeat without thought is wrong, it was written by those that wanted to establish a uniparty duopoly. Stop doing their propaganda work for free.