Having ranked choice voting and easy access to voting would save America a lot of headache.
Yes, but what they're scared of are blacks and women.
Being able to treat a woman like a stabled mare instead of a human should be an option on the table, amiright?
The fact that an older, lovely, elegant mixed race woman past her child bearing years with no kids from her own womb, ambitious, successful, and married while keeping her own name must burn their asses. I bet every single piece of that is mystifying for the Trump ticket since they think so little of women, at base. They cannot comprehend success there. And yet.
Ranked choice is an improvement. Approval voting is my personal preference though
STAR voting for me, but I'd be thrilled about any of them over the first-past-the-post garbage we have now.
You mean eliminating policies that have kneecapped reasonable people since the beginning of the republic?
The republicans think the democrats picked Walz to appeal to rural voters?
If that’s the case then why are all my city friends the most genuinely excited they have been about a democratic politician since two weeks after Obama’s inauguration in 2009?
Pictures of Walz holding pigs, fixing cars, or coaching football aside, democrats picked him because he actually does what they’ve been telling their base they stand for.
It’s like Walz read the marketing material for the Democratic Party and then skipped the private meetings before getting to work. And that is what has my friends excited - that he’s doing something other than bloviating while circling the drain of irrelevance.
Used “bloviate” in a sentence.
I'm a Hufflepuff!
Fine! Ten points to Gryffindor AND ten points to Slytherin. I'm nothing if not magnanimous
If that’s the case then why are all my city friends the most genuinely excited they have been about a democratic politician since two weeks after Obama’s inauguration in 2009?
Because we don't discriminate against people on the basis of where they're from, and do our best to judge people on their merits, and Walz is quite meritorious?
Well, of course. I think it’s a bit odd they’re characterizing it that way. Rural/Urban is not a delineation I would have thought of in terms of support for his politics.
I often feel what’s unsaid is also as important as what’s said - in this case I take it to be an implication that urban folks aren’t as interested in his brand of progressivism. My comment about city friends was to contradict McConnell’s statement, rather than to reinforce any notion of division based on geography.
"... you’ll have two new states: D.C., Puerto Rico. That’s four new Democratic senators in perpetuity.”
The way America treats it's colonies is disgraceful. Guam, America Samoa, American Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, DC, all these places should be states and have a say in what happens to them. This was a country founded on "No taxation without representation", which is exactly what's happening to all these scattered territories that rely on America. Folks shouldn't be thrown a roll of paper towels when they need Federal Emergency Aid. America Samoa has the highest per capita enrollment in the US armed services and yet, when their service is over, they go home and can't vote for most of the government they just supported with their lives.
We need to treat the people who support this country better. Not people who call themselves patriots or whatever fascist label they are co-opting - our own people people need our help and we can start by giving them a voice.
These shitheads have two Dakotas they have no grounds to whine. How about proportional representation instead of bullshit FPTP every 6 years?
He's worried popular policies that are ignored by Republicans will be implemented, leading to even more losses by right-wing "Representatives"? Maybe they should have been listening to what The People want, not grabbing power at all costs...
Fuck Mitch McConnell. I hope he sees his vile, hateful party die completely irrelevant before he finally withers.
As it is written, let it be done
I doubt they will be much different than under biden.
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