• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I mean, either campaign for, run for, or vote for local officials that boost rank-choice-voting.

    Why do you think politicians would hurt their power and damage their donors?

    Get your county to apply it. Then push for your state. Then we’ll work on the country.

    How? Why would representatives change?

    But until then, vote Democrat for president so that Trump doesn’t take away your vote, and we can keep working at it.

    Seems I don’t have a vote either way, and it’s more important to build up dual power to eventually replace this wretched system.

    • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It seems like you’ve decided you are powerless, so you are. You don’t want to work at a local level to build up third parties who would agree with your policies. You just want to whine on the internet. So I’m done. Enjoy your whining.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        There are third parties that share my values, like PSL, who are on the ballot for many states or can be written in elsewhere. You just told me to vote dem, though, now you’re telling me to vote third party?

        I’m not powerless, the fact that you think voting is the only expression of political power means you have no historical context.

        • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          I gotta ask, do you ever ask yourself why Republicans rabidly do everything they can to stop felons from voting, but are unusually A-OK with folks voting for third parties like RFK, Jill Stein (who is clearly a Russian stooge), etc? Have you considered that Republicans generally view third parties as favorable, albeit unknowingly allies who historically siphon more Dem votes than Republican votes?

          Because in my experience talking to folks like yourself, there’s seemingly little to no consideration at all that you’re being used by Republicans to help aid their victory even though this is an established tactic they’ve used for decades.