do you have any evidence for this claim?
Do you want your Brussels sprouts boiled or steamed?
We’re like children getting tricked by our parents into making a choice we didn’t want.
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Eliminating the First Past the Post voting system would enable people to vote for third-party candidates without the risk of a spoiler effect. This change would foster competition in the electoral process, enhancing the quality of candidates for all voters. Additionally, it would likely increase voter turnout and political engagement.
Electoral reform is possible at the state level, Alaska and Maine have already passed electoral reform so it is possible to get this done.
Republicans have already made moves to protect First Past the Post voting. Florida recently made Ranked Choice voting illegal. Fortunately there are many alternatives to FPTP, so the ban still isn’t in the way of passing electoral reform.
So the question remains, why do Blue states still use FPTP voting? Why would you want to use the voting system republicans prefer? There are no republicans stopping these reforms in states that democrats control.
It is clear that democrats understand the flaws of FPTP voting, just talk about voting third party in nearly any social media and you will get a entire flock of Democrats lecturing you on how a vote not for a democrat is a vote for a republican. How can you admit the voting system is flawed and then not make any moves to rectify the situation is beyond me. You don’t get to lecture people on the flaws of FPTP voting and then do nothing to fix the issue.
Here are some videos on the topic if you’d like to know more:
First Past The Post voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Other electoral systems to choose from:
Alternative vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
Ranked Choice voting (the one made illegal in Florida)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2fRPRkWvY
Range Voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig
Single Transferable Vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
STAR voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-mOeUXAkV0
Mixed Member Proportional representation
Nah i encourage people to vote for a better candidate
Don’t forget, Trump said if minorities vote, Republicans will never win another election. Republicans are doing what they can to stay in power and make it harder for people to vote.
antisemitic tankies in the comments losing their tiny minds
Every time you smear anyone who is completely opposed to an ethnostate committing genocide as antisemitic you are equating being Jewish to supporting the actions of the state of the Israel which is both antisemitic in itself and actively harmful to Jewish people globally.
this is the biggest, most obvious chance to shift the democrats towards the left in decades, all you gotta do to show them that y’all won’t support genocide is vote third party just enough to give the third parties 10% of the vote and then let all the media run wild with the idea that neither of the party has approval
and y’all will still vote for an old genocidal white guy just as long as there’s a slightly worse alternative? isn’t that just incentive for the democrats to be slightly worse than worst? won’t that just push the overton window to the right?
voting anything other than third party is complicity with genocide
The only person who can so militantly cling to the idea that both sides are exactly the same is the person for whom the outcomes are exactly the same.
IE the person who needs to do a lot more shutting the fuck up and listening to the people for whom this shit is life and death.
Just remember, people: the US is always one election away from sudden, irrevocable demise. But if you elect the conservative with a D next to their name, then America gets to continue its slow, but inexorable socioeconomic decline as the executive and legislative representatives continue to ignore the policies of the progressives who held their nose to keep them in power. Asking for anything more is both foolish and, even worse, selfish.
As a conservative democrat myself, who will never be forced to compromise any of my ideological positions because the status quo of every election being “too important to lose” is at this point part of the core design of our two party political system, I can say with confidence that if I were ever faced with the choice of voting between an outright fascist and a socialist candidate, that I would definitely vote the only way that made sense to preserve the corporate oligarchy on which the fragile veneer of American democracy rests. Which is to say that I would vote for the fascist, obviously.
If you want to actually vote for progressive candidates, then you are free to move to Mexico and start farming avocados for the cartels.
Well, here goes:
If you don’t want to vote for Biden or trump, don’t. I’m voting party for socialism and liberation this November and you can too.
They’re running Claudia de la cruz for president on a platform of Palestinian statehood and cessation of aid to Israel.
It’s better to vote third party than not to vote because even if the third party doesn’t win, they get material support from your vote in the form of funding, ballot and event presence, media appearances and public awareness.
100% true. “Both sides” arguments exist SOLELY to deflect from awful things done by Republicans, or detract from positive things done by Democrats.
Not once have I seen it deployed for any other purpose.
Then they better get started earning those votes
If you’re making a both sides bad post, be sure to suggest that people vote for a third party, got it!
Btw, have you heard about the party for socialism and liberation? They’re running Claudia de la Cruz for president on a platform of Palestinian liberation and stopping weapons shipments to Israel!
Oh, they see the connection. They just want Republicans in office. They don’t give a fuck about the suffering of minorities, they just want the worst possible option in power so they can feel smug about “not supporting the system”.
