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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

The thing to fight for is ranked choice voting, or some other method without a spoiler effect. Until you have that

No. The thing is for candidates to endorse ranked choice voting and implement it, and until they do that, they are going to have to deal with the spoiler effect.

This shit is so stupid. "You have to fall in line unconditionally forever, until, out of the kindness of their hearts and against their own interests, the party decides to let you out of that situation." That's just saying we have to fall in line unconditionally forever. They're never going to just give us systemic change, it's designed this way on purpose and is working exactly the way they want it to.

The only way to actually apply pressure towards getting necessary policies is through setting conditions on your vote based on those policies. This ideology of "lesser-evilism" is completely illogical and incoherent, and the whole reason we're here is because it's such an egregious failure. There is no incentive for politicians to implement RCV if they know they'll have your vote either way. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.