The argument is usually “The greens have no experience running a country because we’ve never let them run the country before, so we’d better not let them run the country”.
Never mind that that this defeats the point of democracy
It works pretty well, too. Sure there’s still a two party situation going on, but recently the amount of votes not going to either is making it clear they’re slowly losing voter confidence as the older generation fade out.
I think younger voters actually understand how important the senate is too and how powerful ranking it with some detail can be.
Australia has ranked choice voting, does it not? I’d vote for the farthest left option too if the US had RCV.
I’m voting every single far left party before I even hit labour. If you have ranked choice voting may as well use it.
Yeah, that’s why I don’t understand people voting labor here.
The argument is usually “The greens have no experience running a country because we’ve never let them run the country before, so we’d better not let them run the country”.
Never mind that that this defeats the point of democracy
It works pretty well, too. Sure there’s still a two party situation going on, but recently the amount of votes not going to either is making it clear they’re slowly losing voter confidence as the older generation fade out.
I think younger voters actually understand how important the senate is too and how powerful ranking it with some detail can be.