• a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Why would I vote for a primary party candidate who supports ranked choice voting when I can just throw my vote away on a third-party candidate that will never be elected? I’ve got principles!”

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      3 months ago

      Because apparently throwing your vote away will somehow convince politicians to move left or something, despite all the evidence that it won’t.

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        3 months ago

        The Republicans move right during the general, and are sometimes pulled that way by the libertarian candidate (or rfk jr). The Dems usually don’t get pulled left because they’re so focused on moving to the right during the general to try to get the moderate republican vote

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      3 months ago

      Voting for either side is just accepting the status quo.

      Third party vote today is just laying ground work for a generational fight. There is no other way to get the attention from the politicians.

      They rule on behalf of donors and two party system ensures they ways win, they just take turns.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Ranked choice voting seems like a great way to create huge political instability. Let’s take the system that has worked decent for 248 years and completely replace it with something less well tested. We already have uncertainty we don’t need to mess with the system more.

      • Acamon@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        You don’t want to mess about with that democracy nonsense. We’ve had a monarchy that has worked decent for a millennium, and you want it replace it with some untested, newfangled system?