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I emigrated. I'll vote by mail and hope for the best, but the two party system America has will inevitably produce horrible results.
Choosing between only two options is not freedom by any means.
It's why we have primaries. People's inability to understand the importance of primaries simultaneously means they don't vote in them and hate the results. (On average)
The primaries are just a smoke screen. You want to get rid of all the shitty parts of the US voting system? Get rid of the Electoral College. Get rid of the First-Past-the-Post voting system we have been shackled to and all the issues disappear.
CGP Gray did a great series of videos in YouTube like a decade ago about our voting system, alternatives, and how many issues are created from just the Electoral College alone. Unfortunately, those elected stand to lose the most if the process changed so it never will.
CGP Grey didn't cover primaries.
Didn't the democrat party say they wouldn't allow primary debates this election, because Biden was the clear winner?
Yeah, I think that's dumb but debates aren't inherently required for elections.
They are not required, but it doesn't sound like a free democracy, if there's no debate.
Are any of these debates really debates?
As someone who doesn't live in a country where I hold citizenship, I think voting when you're not affected as people who live there are is unfair to them. As is people living there being unable to vote unless they got citizenship which may be very difficult depending on the country.
There are bigger problems in America, if everything was working I might not vote... as it is you can rest assured my vote is essentially meaningless due to the electoral college.