• @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    -111 months ago

    Well said. And we’re NEVER going to get ranked vote with Biden or the current Democrats. Voting Democrat only keeps the two party gig going longer. How long has it been now, 150 years of the same back and forth?

    Unless they start to feel the need to change anything they will never do it if you keep voting for them when they act like this.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      1611 months ago

      And we’re NEVER going to get ranked vote with Biden or the current Democrats.

      Au contraire. Ranked choice is gaining traction having been adopted in 62 jurisdictions. So change is possible right now.

      https://www.rcvresources.org/where-is-rcv-used

      So if you think protest voting is going to somehow snap the neo liberals out of their ideology and drag them in a more progressive direction, you’re going to be in for a big disappointment.

      This two party game has been going for 50 years in its current form (post civil rights era). The Democratic party hasn’t fundamentally changed its tune during that time because people who run and get elected are rich and powerful enough to be isolated from any effects of fascists getting elected. They don’t have to care like us peons / targets of hate.

      We will (continue) make more progress by supporting efforts to change our voting methods. Eventually (and playing the long game is necessary; a single election will do nothing) rcv and similar will gain enough momentum that we will start to see viable parties appear with platforms we agree with more than the current main parties.

      • @PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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        611 months ago

        I really don’t know what stops ranked choice voting from being a Democratic Party platform right now.

        I’d feel a lot better about it becoming a reality if Joe Biden himself came up and said that’s what we need to do.

        • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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          011 months ago

          That’s odd because I distinctly remember all the Trumptards complaining about how horrible the withdrawal under Biden went. You sound like the jackass who was “just asking questions” about where Obama was on 9-11.