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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
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FPP is the problem with the US. And electoral colleges. And Gerrymandering the vote. Electoral oversight needs to be non-partisan. So much needs to change
Liberals not voting is the problem with the US. We sure as fuck aren't getting national ranked choice voting out of the party of fascism. We aren't getting any Democrat favored legislation without a clear majority. Not a 'well the VP can be the tiebreaker in the senate if the 2 right leaning Democrats agree to it' majority. Not even a 'well as long as Joe Lieberman goes along we can break the filibuster' majority is good enough.
Republicans need to be made utterly unelectable before a left leaning party can be viable.
They are not mutually exclusive. You can advocate for reform to the voting system, which is a massive undertaking which will take quite a long time and a lot of effort and may or may not succeed, while still showing up one day and taking one action which (aggregated together with millions of other people doing the same) may save us from impending fascism.
If you think that not voting will "incentivize" the institution of ranked choice voting you are living in a pure fantasy world. In this specific election though it will incentivize the creation of a fascist dictatorship. If you thought FPTP voting was bad wait until "the state legislature overrules everyone's votes" past the post.
Yeah, 100% agreed. How do I advocate for voting reform? The big thing I'm coming to talking about all this stuff is, I should be doing something besides just bullshitting about it on the internet.
Sounds like I misinterpreted "WE have to make this a ballot problem, WE need to incentivize these fucks to care." -- all good. It kinda sounds to me like we're saying the same thing (and I would add reforming a bunch of things besides the voting system, too). How can I help to make that happen?
My favorite way to make conservatives start questioning the electoral college is asking them which state had the most votes for Trump.
It was California, right?
Yep. Makes usually makes them have a high amount of cognitive dissonance. “But…but it’s full of nothing but liberal commies and…their votes mean nothing! My people!”
At the same time, I believe California is the state where your vote matters the least as things have not kept up proportionally.
So the most votes for Trump being degraded the most.
(Edit: this might be more true in the house than presidential EC though)
Maine and Alaska have ranked choice (also called instant runoff) now. Nevada is on track to also go this way. Change is slow, but it has started.