cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15647864
Almost 6 in 10 likely voters surveyed — 58 percent — said they were “concerned” about a second Trump term after hearing about the former president’s reported offer to undo broad swaths of President Biden’s climate policies, according to polling by Data for Progress and Climate Power.
The group’s new poll surveyed 1,231 likely voters from May 10-13, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
True, people will continue to vote duopoly…
I get thar duopoly sucks but that is the final end state of FPTP voting.
So until we implement a more fair voting system and eliminate the electoral college or rework it so that electors are divided closest to the population vote across all 50 states and numbers reworked to accurately reflect populations, we’re stuck with voting for the electors to hopefully choose the less shitty option.
First Past the Post in case anyone doesn’t know what FPTP stands for. It’s the type of voting we have in the US.
It’s also not ever going to change because it would take a constitutional amendment and the last fucking thing we need is a constitutional convention when the GOP controls close to 2/3 of states. It could only make everything worse.
An amendment could also be proposed if two thirds of both houses request it. Of course, that would be cutting their own throats so they won’t do that. Even if it did, the amendment would have to be “ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.” So, yeah, not gonna happen.
Yeah the current best bet is to pass RCV in as many states as possible. Which while it may fracture both parties I suspect it would most effect the Republicans since they are reliant on single issue voters. Said sibgle issue viters could be for example pulled towards a pro-gun socialist for example.
These people also pretend they’ve never heard of primaries. I get that it’s slightly less applicable this year, *because everyone agrees the incumbency advantage is too big to give up".
I would have voted against Biden in the primary if anyone had a chance against him. I love what Biden’s been doing, especially with the worst Congress in my lifetime, but they’re both just too old.
Have you ever even been in a system with three or more party rule? They rarely have a majority. They typically have to form coalition governments with other parties. Democracies are compromise. It’s never one party elected and everything just changes. That only happens in authoritarian systems and LOTS of people are murdered to accomplish this. FDR had 4 terms and didn’t get half of what he fought for accomplished with some of the highest approval ratings ever. It took the right 50+ years of dismantling power structures to get us here.