Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.

Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.

  • minnow
    151·
    hace 1 día

    This is why I’m giving up on changing the DNC and refocusing my efforts on changing the voting system from First Past The Post to Rank Choice.

    But we also need the fascists out of power, and kept out of power.

    These two things have to be achieved in parallel. That’s why I vote Democrat, but only until I have Rank Choice at which point the Democrats will become my second pick (and then eventually third pick, and hopefully someday not one of my picks at all)

    • stylusmobilus@aussie.zone
      2·
      hace 3 horas

      changing the voting system

      You can’t do that until you get the people who can and will do that in power. Logically for the US, the way its voting system is structured and how people vote, the only way to do that is primary out the bad within one of the parties. Again, logic tells us which party that is.

      Personally I think the only way out of this is a peaceful sustained shutdown by the people or by some miracle it implodes, but the voting system won’t be changed until there are enough people in power willing to do it.

      Edit: removed an assumptive paragraph in the middle, I should have paid more attention to your last.

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      hace 1 día

      Now that would be a beautiful thing. Third party voters such as myself wouldn’t get so much hate if ranked choice is an option.

    • tedd_deireadh@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      hace 1 día

      I think this is why we’ll never see ranked choice voting. Both the Democrats and Republicans know that it weakens their power. We’ve already seen multiple states enact laws that specifically ban ranked choice voting for their states.

      • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
        2·
        hace 3 horas

        Yep it just got outlawed in my state by lumping it in with some amendment making it illegal for non-citizens to vote (which was already illegal, but people are morons).

      • minnow
        22·
        hace 23 horas

        Yeah well, it’s not their job to keep fascists out if power. It’s OUR job. Us, the voters.

        Voting works. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us from doing it. And once we have Rank Choice we’ll be able to move beyond the “an actual fascist/not an actual fascist” dichotomy. But until then, for fucks sake, vote “not an actual fascist” even if you don’t like the person you’re voting for. I don’t care how terrible they are, if they’re not an actual fascist then you vote for them. THAT’S how you keep fascists out of power.