• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    The US needs a third, a fourth, a fifth and several more parties as viable alternatives.

    They to drop any weird FPTP systems, this will allow new parties to come into play.

    This would also end the ridiculous gerrymandering shit

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      4 days ago

      Omg, I love you. I’ve been screaming this since CGPGrey’s videos about voting and alternatives to what we have. Getting that is gonna require all existing party members to be cool with a complete loss of power and an increase in the amount of work the have to do to keep their power or get elected.

      It’ll take the states. However, there are already states trying to ban alternative voting methods.

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        Haha, thank you for your kind words!

        As a Swede, the US election system has always seemed so backwards, even the fact that you have to register to vote is completely foreign to me.

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      Yeah, no.

      If no party can get to 270 electoral votes, the president is picked by the House of Representatives.

      That means congress would need be flippped into third party majority first.

      Splitting the left off only benefits the far right. Anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in an echo chamber.