• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    In their infinite wisdom our forefathers gave us a winner take all system, and when you only have one winner you get a two party system or minority rule. It’s just maths.

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        6 hours ago

        Direct voting would help even more.

        It might actually solve the problem of oligarch rule and put power back into the hands of the people.

        We can see why nobody is mentioning it now.

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        No doubt, but it would require a huge effort across all fifty states and has already failed a bunch of times.

        I’ll be dead before we have ranked choice voting. And I’m not even that old.

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          6 hours ago

          This is the unfortunate reality.

          These problems do not get solved because we do not care to solve them.

          We only focus on distractions.

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      To have a real winner the president needs 270 voices in the electoral college, if a third party won enough States that wouldn’t happen, what then?

      Same in the Senate and Congress, if neither the Democrats or the Republicans have enough seats to have a majority because of a third party, they’ll need to work with that party.

      Just because it’s not part of the culture it doesn’t mean it can’t happen and that politicians won’t have to deal with it if it does.