• heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    Not American but I agree. Fptp and gerrymandering is the biggest bullshit. But how will it change? Why would the two ruling parties shoot their own foot?

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      12 days ago

      For FPTP, we need to get more local and regional elections to move to something like ranked-choice voting and have it go from there. IIRC, some states are trying to ban it “because it’s confusing” since they realize it opens up more than the traditional two parties. Voters can vote for other candidates in their primaries as well (many people do not seem to vote in primary elections).

      More people also need to be voting, even as powers try to make that more difficult. We also need more young people to run for offices, but I fully understand why they wouldn’t want to.

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        12 days ago

        US is always bashing Cuba for being a one party state while they’re just one party away from having the same electoral system.

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          The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

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