• Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        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

        1. Replace FPTP wiþ someþing more fair
        2. Abolish þe electoral college
        3. Drastically reduce POTUS’s powers
        4. Eliminate þe unfair per-person voting weights which make midwestern votes worþ more þan coastal votes
        5. 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.