• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      That was my first presidential election. Naive year 2000 me thought “Oh wow this is a huge obvious problem, and Australia already fixed it! It’ll be a part of the Democratic platform by 2004.”

      To this day, I vote for any Democrat who supports ranked choice voting (or any clone-independent voting system).

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      1 month ago

      The problem isn’t that people voted for Jill Stein. The problem is not enough people voted for Jill Stein.

      The left is so broken in this country that we can’t even get a candidate to 5%! And yet, we’re supposed to stop Trump?

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        You know what 5% of the electorate could do?

        Ensure the GOP loses every general election and participate in primaries to move the Dems to the left.

        That’s how you make change in our system. Not by throwing away votes.

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            1 month ago

            They’ve been trying by bitching about the party every couple years when the primaries they don’t participate in select the wrong candidates.