The absolute highest priority in American politics should be getting rid of the 2 party system. I’m not going to pretend to know how exactly, but I think a good step in the right direction would be some form of a ranked voting system.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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I keep saying this: if Democrats want me to vote for them, they need to run better candidates that represent my interests.
Why does 'falling in line' always have to be a one-way street? It's always the progressives' fault, never the centrists or neoliberals.
That's by design, because progressives actually want to reduce the disparity in wealth. The American 'left' is filled of greedy, entitled consumerists just like the right. It's why they want to squabble over the culture war while ignoring the class war.
You don't seem to understand democracy IMO. If you want the Democrats to have better candidates then work to get them elected in primaries. If you don't think the primary candidates are good enough, find someone to run in them or run yourself.
If you sit on the sidelines until the last stage of the process and just bitch about the results of the process, you are just part of the problem.
The Right votes in every election, every time. They vote in the primaries, the general elections,, and any special elections.
If you don't vote, don't be surprised when they keep winning.
Except I vote every time and I still feel like I lose every time regardless of who wins because I don't actually support the people I vote for.
Except for Obama, I have never been excited by anyone I've ever voted for. I still vote every time, because that's the only way any progress gets made.
And if you think no progress has been made, look at all the things Trump is trying to get rid of.
The amount of progress that was made has never, in my entire 40+ years of existence, been enough. And it will never be enough because Democrats lose power every couple years because they're not an organized political party and don't bother doing things that will ensure people's lives are substantively affected by it.
Then the Republicans win and undo all the progress, and Democrats get to whine about how they can't stop it because they're not in the majority, unlike how the Republicans get their way when they're in the majority.
I'm not gonna stop voting, though, because each election, no matter who wins, shows how awful this country really is and how fucked we are.
The neat part about voting is that even if you do it you can get fascism if the rest of the country are a bunch of fucking idiots.
Here is an example of a successful third party in a 2 party FPTP voting system that people keep insisting is impossible in the US because "muh RCV required"
Dang only 20 years to get elected is super good
Speedrun any%
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