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That was never intended to be true, same with the most progressive president line. They just know that no one can call him out on it because they'll just be drowned out by people who are terrified of Trump.
Reasoning: "Oh you don't like something Biden did? WHY DO YOU WANT TRUMP IN OFFICE, I'M ENTITLED TO DEMAND YOUR VOTE!!!1"
Then down votes to complete the flourish.
It's intellectually empty but extremely effective at causing me to dislike people who could otherwise be allies. I've never seen anything quite like it.
I wish lemmy could understand we don't have to be a hivemind in order to be effective.
I wish lemmy and reddit would understand that the US is not the only country that uses FPTP and the propaganda that only two parties can exist in such a system is a bigger factor to the duopoly that the pushers of those lies want to admit. Canada literally has it too but they don't have the same duopoly problem, english speaking neighbors and they couldn't look further away from that example.
I kind of consider our duopoly to be an emergent property from the overall pattern for elections and their funding.
The closest thing I've seen to piercing the duopoly was Perot and lots of people learned to stay binary after that. So it only served to reinforce.
Ranked ballots are the key thing for me and I hope they're part of our future.
We generally only ever have two viable parties, and vote splitting between the two left leaning parties often results in conservative wins. We are not a good example of this.
Get ready, Canada, it's coming!
Who is saying he's supposed to be the most progressive president? From what I remember before the election he very openly took middle of the road positions and declared intentions to reach across the aisle as much as possible.