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Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Most Democrats don't want to fix FPTP because it keeps people voting for them. If a Democrat doesn't explicitly oppose FPTP, then their actions say they support where we are right now.

We spend so much time yelling at internet people for not understanding the obvious logic of FPTP, yet give legislators the benefit of the doubt election after election. Yes they fucking know, it slapped everyone in the face in 2000.

There have been third parties for decades but they won't become viable until after they have been not viable. This scale of coordination takes more than 4 years. The first person you know who will vote against FPTP is you.