The national clown show should take up a very small fraction of your legitimate consideration imo.
But feel free to gum up the local scene. And if your orgs allies have a certain way to vote then do that.
The national clown show should take up a very small fraction of your legitimate consideration imo.
But feel free to gum up the local scene. And if your orgs allies have a certain way to vote then do that.
I know voting feels worthless, but it's necessary to ensure that the system can represent us. Even "deep blue" places are often only like 65% blue - we're really all a shade of purple. As for breaking out of this oppressive duopoly of Democrats and Republicans, you could start volunteering for https://starvoting.org/ and/or https://represent.us/...
Alternative voting systems do not fix the problem. Plenty of capitalist dictatorship countries like australia use ranked choice voting, and that has not stopped them from genociding aboriginal peoples. It can't even get their cities decent internet speeds lol.
I've studied alternative voting systems a lot (even made a website that lets you compare about 2 dozen of them at once). I'd love for us to switch to an Approval system. But if there's one thing I've concluded from studying them it's that you can't fix a system of exploitation through "reform" without directly addressing the underlying power structures. I do believe these systems can help us break the duopoly, but, if anything, smaller parties can be even more susceptible to corporate takeover
What gives you the impression that the system has ever represented regular people?
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