• Edward Internethands@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s what first past the post voting systems systematically offer, “bad” or “very bad” options. Change the system and you’ll see a big difference

    • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How? Ranked choice voting and well-designed non-partisan redistricting are necessary reforms that too few people know about. We need a duo of liberal and conservative billionaires that make this their pet issue, a handful of country music stars, pop stars, and hip-hop/rap/RnB artists behind it and we’d get it in a heartbeat. Fuck, Elon Musk could distract people from the media nightmare that is his mouth and become a big advocate of it and we’d have Chads burning down the internet for these reforms the next day.

      • Edward Internethands@lemmy.world
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        I’m solid on identifying the systematic issues at play historically and how they could have have been avoided, but how best to proceed from here is way more dynamic and probably beyond my expertise. Billionaires benefit from status quo, and if they or their populist goons were involved in the reforms I’m pretty leery of how good the outcome could be. I lost the ability to imagine a good path forward for America, which is part of why I left.