Voting is about choosing good candidates (or parties, or policies). If your system doesn't let you vote, then you should consider changing your system.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Voting is about choosing good candidates well before it gets pared down to 2 options. It's about choosing a good local government, choosing good representatives, choosing good senators. If the only thing you care about is the President, then you'll never have a good pool of options from which the parties will pick a presidential candidate. They're not on our side - it's our job to force their hand with a deck stacked with good candidates. But only the people who pay attention to politics well before election year get to have a say in stuff like that.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Voting is about choosing good candidates well before it gets pared down to 2 options.

In the US, yes. I was making a general statement. A voting system can be set up in multiple ways, but if it forces people to play lesser of the two evils then it is broken and needs to be changed.