The US is built around a party system (and typically a 2 party system). Like it or not, that’s what it is. No amount of crying on the internet is going to change that.
So either burn shit in the streets, or work within the system. Bitching about it while not voting as a “protest” just puts the absolute worst shit hawks in power.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
Julius Nyerere
burn shit in the streets is your best option.
But knowing how potty trained to “work within the system” you all are and there is zero chance for you pacified slaves.
Resign in your fate and get what you deserve
Obviously, the only way to end FPTP while working within the system is to vote for people who are against FPTP.
If they don’t oppose FPTP, then they are fine with Republicans and are playing you for a fool. Yes they know, everyone has known since the 2000 election.
FPTP is not the problem, that works well for presidentials, which is what everyone cares. The problem is with Winner Takes All and electoral college, which means your vote is worth very little in all but swing states.
FPTP doesn’t work well at all for presidential elections. FPTP is infamously why George W. Bush became president. It’s why we have a “two” party duopoly who want to keep it that way.
No objection to proportional representation, but that’s a little further out than “can we vote for people who are actually good”. It’s a much tougher sell.
Same with the electoral college - sure it sucks, but that’s not why otherwise good people vote for genocide.
FPTP doesn’t work well at all for presidential elections. FPTP is infamously why George W. Bush became president.
Al Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 presidentials, which in a true FPTP, would have netted him the POTUS.
Trump also lost the popular vote, but Clinton got really screwed by the Electoral College. Would life (in the US) have been better if Al Gore and Hillary Clinton had been made presidents instead of Bush and Trump (notably two of the worst presidents)?
Maybe. But the fact is that under a purely FPTP presidentials, Bush would not have won.
No offense, but were you an adult by 2000? The popular vote wasn’t done counting until after the Supreme Court ruled in Bush’s favor. Had there been no spoiler effect, it wouldn’t have been close, and the Supreme Court wouldn’t have ruled on it.
The US is built around a party system (and typically a 2 party system). Like it or not, that’s what it is. No amount of crying on the internet is going to change that.
So either burn shit in the streets, or work within the system. Bitching about it while not voting as a “protest” just puts the absolute worst shit hawks in power.
It’s a two party system, but every so often an old rotten party gets torn down and replaced with a new one.
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voting is what puts politicians in power.
The former appeals. Need critical mass though so set the engines to warp 10.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
burn shit in the streets is your best option.
But knowing how potty trained to “work within the system” you all are and there is zero chance for you pacified slaves.
Resign in your fate and get what you deserve
You first
Not from the banana republic.
We do and did it when necessary
Obviously, the only way to end FPTP while working within the system is to vote for people who are against FPTP.
If they don’t oppose FPTP, then they are fine with Republicans and are playing you for a fool. Yes they know, everyone has known since the 2000 election.
FPTP is not the problem, that works well for presidentials, which is what everyone cares. The problem is with Winner Takes All and electoral college, which means your vote is worth very little in all but swing states.
FPTP doesn’t work well at all for presidential elections. FPTP is infamously why George W. Bush became president. It’s why we have a “two” party duopoly who want to keep it that way.
No objection to proportional representation, but that’s a little further out than “can we vote for people who are actually good”. It’s a much tougher sell.
Same with the electoral college - sure it sucks, but that’s not why otherwise good people vote for genocide.
Al Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 presidentials, which in a true FPTP, would have netted him the POTUS.
Trump also lost the popular vote, but Clinton got really screwed by the Electoral College. Would life (in the US) have been better if Al Gore and Hillary Clinton had been made presidents instead of Bush and Trump (notably two of the worst presidents)?
Maybe. But the fact is that under a purely FPTP presidentials, Bush would not have won.
No offense, but were you an adult by 2000? The popular vote wasn’t done counting until after the Supreme Court ruled in Bush’s favor. Had there been no spoiler effect, it wouldn’t have been close, and the Supreme Court wouldn’t have ruled on it.
I am not American and I just read the wiki page over…