• elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Good.

    Americans who don’t want a fascist takeover need to realize that FPTP does not give a single shit about your third-party candidate with ~1% of the vote. Sorry, it hurts but it’s true. If you fail to back Biden, you enable trump. It really is that simple. Is it healthy for our democracy? Hell no - but using the 2024 ballot box to make that statement is foolish, irresponsible, and dangerous. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the best choice you’re going to get.

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      8 months ago

      Americans who don’t want a fascist takeover

      There must not be very many of them, otherwise they could simply all register Republican and take over the party to steer it in the right direction.

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        8 months ago

        And risk getting death threats from all the MAGAs? It would probably be a better idea just to start your own party and keep those fucks out.

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          8 months ago

          Let me just climb into my political party cannon and blast off to political party land

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      8 months ago

      Someone posted this link in another thread. The site has ranked choice voting among other things as ways to fix the US political system. Which at times has seemed so broken to me that I believed only a revolution could fix. The site talks about starting local and is optimistic that we could fix it democratically and over the next decade or so (I don’t remember the timeline, just that it seemed quicker and with less drastic measures than I assumed would be needed). https://represent.us/

      Bonus, Jennifer Lawrence is involved and in the initial information video.

      Something that did stand out was that, currently, whether a policy had 0% public support or 100% public support there was only about 30% chance of the policy/law getting passed. And that 70% of a politicians time was spent raising money to get elected.

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        8 months ago

        No it ain’t and the US has never been a great democracy, far too many people have been systemically disenfranchised from its very inception, but if you ever want the opportunity to experience democracy then Trump can’t win which means Biden is the call to make, the only third party candidate with any traction right now is RFK Jr and he’s both a batshit crazy conspiracist and an obvious spoiler candidate. The only other choice is revolution but that’s not happening in time and even if it does happen that doesn’t guarantee that what comes after will be good. So either put on your fatigues or realize the reality of the situation we’re in vs why it’s not a good system

        I can’t fucking stand Biden but he’s not a fascist authoritarian that will usher in Christian nationalism to the halls of power. Trump and RFK are, fuck all three of them but one is a treatable cancer and the other two are pancreatic and late stage lung cancer