Both parties suck, but one party can be conquered, and reconfigured to reflect what we want.
That’s exactly what the Radical Republicans did. They started in the 90s with Gingrich’s Contract With America, and slowly took over the party, taking it more and more right, through the Tea Party, and eventually MAGA.
Dems can do the same thing, and now that they have the playbook, they can speed up the process. They don’t have get in the mud, and cheat and steal, but they do absolutely have to play Hard Ball, and force the DNC to do what we want. The Republicans did it, and their leaders aren’t nearly as weak as Dem leaders.
As long as its run by the same corpos its very little difference. Dems just prefer to drift towards autocracy a little slower and with better media coverage paving the way to hell
Real dilemma they’ve got, lots of other countries in barely 3-4 party systems are often in not much better shape but the 2 party system is absolutely killer. So easy to pay off both sides and employ them fultime on the side to keep up the kayfabe while everything predicatbly goes to shit
I didn’t know that, the states with constitutional amendments it’s not so easy as removing them, it takes supermajorities, I think 3/4 of lawmakers to overturn. Some referendums are just statutory or order lawmakers to do things, which are doomed to be subverted obviously, as we saw with Florida’s felon voter enfranchisement law years back.
Michigan should be voting on one soon, it might even me in this next election. The vote is tighter than previous amendments like marijuana or ending gerrymandering though.
Yes. Sadly there seems to only be one other party to vote for
People have two options boycott and let MAGA keep choosing for them or try to vote and bring a slow change but at least a change
Be careful with the false narrative the two parties are the same. They want you to not vote.
Both parties suck, but one party can be conquered, and reconfigured to reflect what we want.
That’s exactly what the Radical Republicans did. They started in the 90s with Gingrich’s Contract With America, and slowly took over the party, taking it more and more right, through the Tea Party, and eventually MAGA.
Dems can do the same thing, and now that they have the playbook, they can speed up the process. They don’t have get in the mud, and cheat and steal, but they do absolutely have to play Hard Ball, and force the DNC to do what we want. The Republicans did it, and their leaders aren’t nearly as weak as Dem leaders.
As long as its run by the same corpos its very little difference. Dems just prefer to drift towards autocracy a little slower and with better media coverage paving the way to hell
Real dilemma they’ve got, lots of other countries in barely 3-4 party systems are often in not much better shape but the 2 party system is absolutely killer. So easy to pay off both sides and employ them fultime on the side to keep up the kayfabe while everything predicatbly goes to shit
If the US would just fet rid of FPTP completely and embrace proportional representation, new parties would have a chance.
States are adopting ranked choice voting as we speak. Mostly just states with voter sponsored ballot initiatives, which includes 30 some of them.
They are also removing them after it hurt them in elections (see Alaska)
I didn’t know that, the states with constitutional amendments it’s not so easy as removing them, it takes supermajorities, I think 3/4 of lawmakers to overturn. Some referendums are just statutory or order lawmakers to do things, which are doomed to be subverted obviously, as we saw with Florida’s felon voter enfranchisement law years back.
Michigan should be voting on one soon, it might even me in this next election. The vote is tighter than previous amendments like marijuana or ending gerrymandering though.