Like It or Not, the Left Can’t Get Away From the Democrats
Like It or Not, the Left Can’t Get Away From the Democrats
While the Left agonizes over its relationship to the Democrats, the extreme right has few qualms about throwing elbows within the GOP. Socialists should follow their lead and accept doing battle within the Democratic Party as the only viable political option.
You know how it is, OP. If no bus gets you exactly where you want to go, you take the bus that gets you closest. What you don’t do is take the fascist sedition bus because your preferred bus doesn’t stop at your front door.
Perfect analogy! Perfection never exists and parties can be extremely complex. Agreeing with the one that is more reasonable is exactly how political voting works.
If no bus gets you exactly where you want to go, you take the bus that gets you closest.
This is a shit analogy because it assumes that the two buses are going in different directions. It's just gloating from people who like where both buses are heading.
why don't you ask the gays/trans bout "both buses heading in the same direction"
this "they are the same" bullshit can only be said by someone in a real nice place of privilege, as for me, one bus is already calling to cleanse me and quite a few of my friends off the face of the planet because of who we love and what some of us identify as
If both busses take you in the wrong direction, then you walk
Fortunately, that's not even remotely the situation we're in. It would be terrible if "both sides amirite" actually reflected reality, but it doesn't.
We desperately need to abolish first past the post voting and replace it with literally any proportional voting system. I don't care which one as literally any of them will be an improvement. It's the only way we'll ever break this destructive two party system we're locked into.
Hope you didn’t expect to just vote for ranked choice voting.
"Best we can do is abolish voting. welcome to the one true party, friend."
Any other methods that challenge their power and authority will be fought tooth and nail. Just like the DNC currently suing to keep RCV off the ballot in DC, and neighboring Alexandria VA doing the same. Both claiming minorities are too ignorant to understand.
FPTP works fine if voters would pull their heads out of their ass and realize the duopoly doesnt represent them and support 3rd party. 75m+ voting 3rd party will result in them being FPTP
Any other methods that challenge their power and authority will be fought tooth and nail.
Yes, unfortunately both parties are going to do everything in their power to make sure we NEVER get any kind of proportional voting system, because they know they'd win fewer elections.
FPTP works fine if voters would pull their heads out of their ass and realize the duopoly doesnt represent them and support 3rd party.
Unfortunately this is wrong. In a FPTP system, the only way to make sure that a major party candidates doesn't win is to vote for the other major party candidate. Any vote for a 3rd party only weakens whichever major party candidate you most favor. This has been proven mathematically. A FPTP system will always devolve into a two party system. The only way to escape a rigid two party system is to use a proportional voting system.
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