• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    It’s always a group that is simultaneously

    • big enough to ruin the election for the democratic candidate
    • too small to make it worth pursuing their votes
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        7 months ago

        Anything to place the blame on a small outside group and away from the main inside group who holds power and responsibility over their current predicament.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t see how those statements are contradicting each other within the context of US presidential elections.

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        7 months ago

        If they are big enough to ruin re-election chances then they are by definition big enough to make pursuing their votes worthwhile (because without them you will loose)

        If you want a system where you can disregard that reality then you need a different electoral process. An easy way to mitigate that risk is to eliminate 3rd party candidates and make voting mandatory (or pressure 3rd parties to drop out and guilt non-voters into voting, as it were), but an astute observer might notice that looks an awful lot like something called a ‘sham democracy’.

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            7 months ago

            Lol no, but as long as you’re asking what I want: I want a system that can provide actual choices, rather than force a choice nobody wants.

            But as long as that’s not realistic, I want the choice that’s blaming me for the destruction of my country to address my concerns in exchange for me choosing them.

            What is definitely NOT what I want is to be blamed for my country’s destruction AND have my concerns be ignored. That doesn’t seem like a good system to me.

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              Lol no, but as long as you’re asking what I want: I want a system that can provide actual choices, rather than force a choice nobody wants.

              Well voting third party, even if that party managed to succeed, will not accomplish what you claim to want.

              We’ve had third parties that were successful in the past, guess what happened to the old party? It was displaced and became electorally irrelevant and then we were back to two parties again.

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                  7 months ago

                  So how does voting for third party do anything to further any change to the current system toward one you’re talking about?

                  This really isn’t that complicated. The country doesn’t run a two-party system because of arbitrary or conspiratorial reasons, it runs one because the system’s structure produces two parties.

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                    7 months ago

                    Are we having two different conversations? Did you read what I wrote?

                    I’m not advocating voting third party, nor am I rationalizing a two party system as some type of conspiracy.

                    I was simply stating a desire for a system that actually produces real choices instead of the one we currently have that forces a choice nobody wants. How we get to that is another discussion, but frankly, we can’t have that discussion when one party is panicking about loosing voters who are dissatisfied with the choices on offer because (i’m looking at you here) every statement of dissatisfaction is interpreted as subterfuge.