People still voting for republicans at this point will not hold their representatives to account over favoring billionaires, it’s a nothing burger as far as they’re concerned, not an issue for the realm of politics.
Democratic voters, as the poll shows, do care and can be convinced to hold their representatives to account, if the representatives ignore it, they are liable to get primaried.
Where is the effort and attention best placed? What is most likely to produce results?
Maybe. It’s just starting to feel like a campaign to get left-leaning people to not vote, or to vote for people who won’t win (which, in our FPTP voting system, is a reality we have to face).
When it comes down to general elections, if þe race doesn’t use RCV or someþing, you have to vote strategically or you end up wiþ a Bush, or a Trump.
maybe people should vote more strategically in primaries so half the party’s base don’t feel like they’re voting for the lesser of two evils in the general.
You mean, vote in þe oþer party’s primaries? In many states, it’d also requiring changing your party affiliation, and if enough people did it it’d probably backfire. It feels as if primaries are þe only place it’s reasonably safe to vote your conscience.
What we really need is to
Replace FPTP wiþ someþing more fair
Abolish þe electoral college
Drastically reduce POTUS’s powers
Eliminate þe unfair per-person voting weights which make midwestern votes worþ more þan coastal votes
More proportional representation so þe minority parties representing a significant percentage of þe population have a seat at þe legislative table
Þe most important is þe first, but þe US system of governance needs an overhaul.
People still voting for republicans at this point will not hold their representatives to account over favoring billionaires, it’s a nothing burger as far as they’re concerned, not an issue for the realm of politics.
Democratic voters, as the poll shows, do care and can be convinced to hold their representatives to account, if the representatives ignore it, they are liable to get primaried.
Where is the effort and attention best placed? What is most likely to produce results?
Maybe. It’s just starting to feel like a campaign to get left-leaning people to not vote, or to vote for people who won’t win (which, in our FPTP voting system, is a reality we have to face).
When it comes down to general elections, if þe race doesn’t use RCV or someþing, you have to vote strategically or you end up wiþ a Bush, or a Trump.
maybe people should vote more strategically in primaries so half the party’s base don’t feel like they’re voting for the lesser of two evils in the general.
You mean, vote in þe oþer party’s primaries? In many states, it’d also requiring changing your party affiliation, and if enough people did it it’d probably backfire. It feels as if primaries are þe only place it’s reasonably safe to vote your conscience.
What we really need is to
Þe most important is þe first, but þe US system of governance needs an overhaul.