With a electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would feel safe to vote for whomsoever they wish, as their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win.
Just search for videos on FPTP voting if you want an explanation on how and why the spoiler effect exists.
Electoral reform is possible in each individual state (for now), we dont need federal reform! Maine and Alaska have already passed electoral reform.
Republicans are moving to make alternative electoral systems illegal in their states. Republicans LOVE first past the post voting. Just sbsolutely adore it. Why would you want to use the same voting system republicans want?
More political parties means a higher percentage of the population is represented by their choices in the voting booth. More people involved in the electoral process, more people engaged.
Its a win win win all around for not just the people, but also for the democratic party. More people voting means more democratic votes. The numbers dont lie. So what’s the hold up blue states?
Some day we will be able to vote for who best represents our interests. We won’t need to grovel on our knees, begging for representationin government. We won’t need to wait for the Republican party to stop existing.
We can do it right now. We don’t have to get over a damn thing. If anyone needs to get over themselves, it would be the democrats who assume they are the only way forward.
Consider starting a campaign to change how we vote in your own state! Force our representatives to compete with fresh outside ideas. We deserve the best representation, not excuses.
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This is exactly the way I feel about all these people who choose inaction and agitate for others to abstain. You’re so fucking right and I’m sick of all these comments coddling this cowardly attitude of abstinence from real action. My partner is a political organizer, works in civil rights and climate action. He’s Latino and disabled. We’re both trans and queer. I volunteer and organize. The reality is most people won’t volunteer or donate to make change. The easiest thing most people can do to make real change is to vote.
Claiming voting doesn’t work, and asserting you’d rather not vote than vote for a middle of the road candidate versus the fascist… it’s a privileged take. It’s not allyship. It’s not about helping people or making a difference, it’s moral purity. They’d rather throw away lives than taint their soul with an impure decision. I don’t have the privilege to maintain my purity, and those that do should take a hard look at how they’re using that privilege.
It might make you feel icky icky to vote for the guy you dislike versus the man who wants to exterminate me. Get over it or be honest that you’d rather feel pure than take action.
Privileged lefties’ prioritization of moral purity over real action will be the death of us.
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Try not seating a neoliberal as the candidate then, maybe you can get some leftists to go vote. The fact that so many people were assaulting the “Bernie Bros” proved to me that people like you are not leftists, you’re just rainbow neolibs.
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Except study after study show that the US does not respond to the will of the people, they respond to the will of the copreration, Your vote does not matter because once in office your will does not matter, This has been born out in actual full studies.
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Except they have done genuine studies on this, and the will of the american people has no effect on laws passed in the states or the federal government. I wish I was making this up but I am not, I will not go so far as to say a vote means absolutly nothing in total terms, but in figuritive terms it is meaningless, and there are studies to prove this.
Second, You do not know anything about me or what I do or what I hold dear. That being said, I am higly unlikely to be lower or at the very least significatly lower on the kill list than any of them, I also do very much cair about them, I also refuse to give my vote at gun point to someone who has done none of what they promised other than “No change” to doners. A man who happily broke a labor strike, a man who is aiding with no qualms and bending over backwards to protect a genoicede. No they do not get my vote. Especialy when the "threat: on the other side has no material difrence.
I mean, intersting that you assume my dreams are to immulate a fictional charicter, they are not, and I can tell you I am well aware that the revolution 1 is not a “wet dream” that is just… disgusting eww… and 2 is not anywhere close, the amount of class contiousness needed is not anywhere near where it needs to be… there are also people like you who seem to think the idea of a revolution is cilly and psycopathic, and all you have to to is vote… dispite the studies showing that the vote does not matter at the best of times, and this is not that.
If you want to know who my Hero I would want to Imulate is that would be John Brown leading a Ritchous Revolution, or Castro, or Mao, or Lennin. but no I would not think about playing out some fictional charicter
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your right Clinton would have likely preserved Roe V Wade a little longer, assuming the senate confermed her choices. And that is a big if, but that is also a Miopic, under both Democratic and Republican apointed courts contenue to chip away at rights, including the popular ones, so long as it is not the one with all the attention on it at the moment. I also find it interesting that under multiple democratic trifecta’s there was never a statutory right to abortion passed, especialy when everyone knew how percarious it was as a right given under a constantly devided and increasingly more politicised supreme court.
Second, I find it oddly presumptuous that once agian you are assuming my position in society, or if I voted in the primary or not, or in a general or not, I can tell you I do vote in the primaries, and I do in general vote in the general elections. Agian not that this information is any of your buisness, but your liberal brain cannot seem to comprehend anything beyond vote so I will tell you I d.
Third, that is not the reason, the reason is because agian, and I cannot stress this enough, are no meanigfull difrences between the 2 options, at the best of times you get the “Very bad accelerationist” group and the “Very bad at your own pace hold a gun to your head look at how bad they are” group and well I do not know if rewards should be given to the group that decides to fix nothing in order to have a gun to point for the next election, agian this is the most generous and the most best of times comparison I can give. I understand this is a scarry time, Trump is in the news the big bad ruiner of democracy, and rights are being taken away, and one side is looking crazy, but the other side is letting it happen, the other side is aiding a genocide. They both serve capital. They both voted to break the strike, The dems had a trifecta at the begining of Biden’s term and they did not pass a ledgislative right to abortion. There is no canidate who represents me, because they are both fash.
I mean I am sorry you feel that way, but no revolution comes at the end of a ballot box, no opressed group gets out by voting it away. I understand and have accepted that under the status quo, as it contenues I will be lined up and shot, and my vote will not change that one way or the other, I would hardly say telling people that both options are fash is “activly fighting aganst a revolution” I am not telling a single person not to vote. if you feel it is your moral obligation to vote, do it, do what makes you feel like you are doing the most good, I am simply saying you are enabling evil. You are enabling Fascism.
I would say I am fighting the rise of Fascism, though not to the exent I could or realisticly should be able to, that being said I also fear for my safety if I do much more. but if that means that I will be shot when the liberals “save us from facism” so be it,