And not just republicans. You can find all stripes of accelerationist crazies doing that on this very website.
We must bring about glorious revolution, even if our methods aren't particularly effective and millions suffer.
No you see they have a plan.
Its brilliance is in its simplicity!
This is the hilarious tragedy of the Democratic party:
If the race is close, then the electoral college, courts and other methods can be used to bump things to the GOP (2000).
If the race isn't that close, then people will feel comfortable voting third party to "make a statement", which can cost enough votes in key states to cost the election (2016).
I mean, in 2016 Dems still handily won the popular vote, so it was still the electoral college as the ultimate problem, and third parties were only contributing factors.
In addition to just being a good idea, getting rid of the electoral college would be good because we’d never have to hear about meaningless third-party candidates acting as spoilers. They’d either be real contenders or just narcissists like Jill Stein.
Getting rid of the electoral college would not solve spoiler candidates necessarily. For that you would need to replace it with ranked voting or multiple rounds. Would still be a good idea, as the college just means presidents caring a lot more about swing states.
Without the electoral college though, the only time a third party candidate could act as a spoiler would be if they had a significant share of the vote. They deserve to be spoilers in those cases I think. My problem is with folks pulling in 1% - 3% of the vote in a single state ultimately deciding a national election.
But yeah, RCV would be the best way to ensure better representation (though honestly it can still easily have what could be viewed as “spoilers”)
Haven’t we all known this about Shill Stein for a very long time, or are we supposed to pretend it’s a big shocking reveal so the leftists can feel better about being duped?
The people duped by Stein are not the people who call themselves leftists.
On the contrary, many that call themselves leftists have been thoroughly duped. Or they're all bad faith actors, but I try to never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by incompetence.
No! Come on, everyone! Third party candidates are what's best for the country. We aren't doing this to dilute the vote, we just want to have our voices heard. Sure, everything we are saying is being said by the main two parties, but we also smoke a lot of weed. So, come on, guys, just vote for the Green Party.
I vote Green.
Because I live in a country with an actual proportional representation system, so my vote for a minor party still allows the major party that I most closely align with to gain power
That has no barring on the Green Party this post is about. They are not the same just because they share a name.
Whoop di do, who gives a fuck?
If it hasn’t been posted there already, you should post this to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world!
Done. I looked for that community and missed it the other day. ¯\(ツ)/¯.
Putin's party supports Putin's hand pick spoiler candidate.
Wait so she is just using a consultancy firm that has previously worked with republicans? Is that the story here?
Sort of. She also has some Russian ties.
While I don't think she is some kind of Soviet black ops plant, she's secured funding many times by less savory means. That does mean the things she says and does require a little extra thought though.
I do wish it wasn't part of the "assassinate the left, cozy towards center" mentality that democrats are embracing.
Yes as much as I don't like Stein nor will I vote for her I feel the splurge of news on her is mediocre at best and very obviously being paid for.
She's not done anything to warrant the scrutiny she literally hasn't done ANYTHING at all. Why am I hearing about her so much?
Weird how Republican interest is a 100% match to tankie talking points. So super weird and beyond explanation.
There is no way they're the same folks, that would be insane 👌
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