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We desperately need to abolish first past the post voting and replace it with literally any proportional voting system. I don't care which one as literally any of them will be an improvement. It's the only way we'll ever break this destructive two party system we're locked into.
Hope you didn’t expect to just vote for ranked choice voting.
"Best we can do is abolish voting. welcome to the one true party, friend."
Yes, unfortunately both parties are going to do everything in their power to make sure we NEVER get any kind of proportional voting system, because they know they'd win fewer elections.
Unfortunately this is wrong. In a FPTP system, the only way to make sure that a major party candidates doesn't win is to vote for the other major party candidate. Any vote for a 3rd party only weakens whichever major party candidate you most favor. This has been proven mathematically. A FPTP system will always devolve into a two party system. The only way to escape a rigid two party system is to use a proportional voting system.
Yes they both suck, but one of them is almost incomparably worse than the other. It's a choice between things being slightly worse vs. things being horrendously worse. The GOP have literally embraced fascism. If you're not voting to keep them out of office pretty soon you won't have to worry about voting at all. You won't have the option to even if you wanted to. Do you want to end up like Russia? Because this is how you end up like Russia.
You need to pick your battles, one problem at a time. We need to save our democracy first, then we can fix our economy. The GOP are setting up to crown a dictator and to begin a good old fashioned political purge of anyone who has or might oppose them. That's the biggest danger right now. Once that's headed off then we can address the corporations and the wealthy executive class that have been gutting the middle class and sucking the working class dry.
First priority is preventing the GOP from cementing permanent rule and abolishing democracy. Then we fix our political parties by introducing proportional voting to allow for actual political representation. Then we fix our judiciary by un-stacking the courts and putting systems in place to check political power grabs and manoeuvering by the supreme court. Then we fix our police force by making many systemic changes to how police operate and their relationship to the courts. Once all of that is squared away then the board is set to start breaking up the corporations and returning to a healthy economy where every market isn't dominated by a half dozen (or fewer) megacorps.
If you allow the GOP to seize power nothing else is going to matter. We will cease to be a democracy and short of an armed uprising (and the odds of that succeeding aren't great) there won't be anything the public will be able to do to stop the oligarchs from finishing carving up and consuming the US. The US will end up just like Russia where a band of kleptocrats who have all sworn fealty to a dictator will have free reign to pillage to their hearts content.
OK Nero, you keep fiddling while Rome burns. That view from your moral high horse is going to do you a lot of good when you're in a gulag for refusing to cheer for Dear Leader. A decade ago you might have had a point, but we're well past the point where this is just a political disagreement, this is now an existential risk to US democracy. Keeping the GOP out of power is literally the only thing stopping the US from going to same route as 1933 Germany. For better or worse though instead of going war crazy they're more likely to pull a Russia though and just cement themselves as the perpetual ruling class and begin looting and pillaging anything that isn't nailed down. But you go ahead and keep voting for people that are mathematically incapable of winning an election. I'm just going to hope you'd be a MAGAt otherwise so at least your waste of a vote isn't a net negative.
Do you not see this shit. Or this. Or this. Or this. Then of course there's the state level bullshit. But yes, clearly the DNC are just as bad as the GOP. You can't both sides this bullshit.
There is no way you're serious, so you've got to be a troll. I've let you waste enough of my time. I'm done here.