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have you seen who they vote for? this is what they want
If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?
If they choose the worst option it's a signal they want to keep moving in that direction!
Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.
And thanks to gerrymandering that minority gets it's way half the time
I don't care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.
If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.
It’s not that tiny, it’s at least 27%.
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Bingo. Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
Fuck that and not voting at all is voting for the popular evil then.
There's always more than 2 choices.
In Europe where there is a proper parlement getting your fave party to patlement is valid. In the two party system of US voting for the lesser most popular monster is the way to keep the worst monster out of the whitehouse, you can still do other political action to pursue YOUR ideals.
But it's not a 2 party system by design. It's just that the major parties have convinced enough sheep that it is.
Well your so called sheep are the voters that determine this reality. You can work to change it or do name calling and denying reality
thanks for letting us know you have absolutely no understanding of the american election system.
confidently, too.