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As good as preferential/ranked voting is. Compulsory voting would have a much larger positive impact on US' democracy
Ideally both
Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting... it doesn't make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the "democracy" there is nothing but political theatre.
Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven't learned this simple lesson.
In what world is Australia far right? Center right/neoliberal today maybe. But not far fight, especially compared to other countries
Also I recommend compulsory voting.
In this world, the world where open support for genocide is bipartisan in Australian politics
I do not and will not dispute that either.
Neither can fix the systemic problems caused by capitalism though, democracy in capitalism is democracy for capitalists.
Well then use that amendment that children keep dying for or stop complaining. So pathetic
Please stop financing and enabling the USA, also, and stop using the US dollar for international trade. So lame that you haven't done that
I actively steal from the USA
Okay. Thank you for your service.
I already organize with a communist party, I have no intention of simply complaining alone.
What good is complaining amongst a communist org, if your democracy and elections a rlcapitalist?
Communist parties are revolutionary parties, generally. I'm not just whining about the system.
Yes you are, you are winging about the the system to people like me who aren't part of it
Didn't the US make one of your prime ministers disappear for criticising pine gap? Isn't Australia part of five eyes? Isn't Australia an "Enhanced Opportunities Partner" to NATO? I think whether you like it or not you are part of the Euro-Amerikan empires system.
Yep, we sure are all of those thing as well.
You live in capitalism too, last I checked, and just because I don't think complaining will change anything doesn't mean I can't complain online in my free time.
Why are you like this? Who pissed you off? You have no idea what I do or don't do, just a minute ago you were advocating for revolution and when I tell you I organize with a revolutionary party, you backpedal and insult me.
I have low expectations on your words alone. But also am satisfied with that because at best it's meaningless, at worst I am wrong.
Maybe don't have such a terminally negative outlook?
I can see why you would think it's negative, but i don't have the ability to put into words why it really isn't.
I dunno, being rude to people online for no reason seems negative.
Assuming I was being rude seem pretty negative
You were though.
How will compulsive voting improve anything? Now you're dragging even more uninformed dopes to vote, a lot of them will vote for spite. Far more than you realize, I think
Trump was 100% the vote-for-spite-burn-it-down candidate. That's how they get you, the old switcheroo
uninformed defines almost all american voters and the last election showed that 30 million people who voted in 2020, chose not to vote in 2024 instead of spite voting.
That doesn't happen in reality