What's something that Democrats and Republicans have in common?
They both despise each other? 馃
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LordShadowfire 路 M
They both only pretend to care about the people who elect them. That's why up until this election, I hadn't voted either Democrat or Republican since voting for Obama in 2008.
That's right. I didn't vote for the man the second time. I cast my vote for some guy whose whole campaign platform was that corporations are not people. And in 2016, I voted for Jill Stein. It was only the horrible debacle that was the Trump presidency that forced me to pick a mainstream candidate this last election. And let me be clear, Joe Biden wasn't even my favorite Democrat, let alone my favorite candidate. It's just that not enough people are awake enough to the situation to vote for anybody but the people the news media tell them to.
That's right. I didn't vote for the man the second time. I cast my vote for some guy whose whole campaign platform was that corporations are not people. And in 2016, I voted for Jill Stein. It was only the horrible debacle that was the Trump presidency that forced me to pick a mainstream candidate this last election. And let me be clear, Joe Biden wasn't even my favorite Democrat, let alone my favorite candidate. It's just that not enough people are awake enough to the situation to vote for anybody but the people the news media tell them to.
LeopoldBloom 路 M
@LordShadowfire More people would vote third party if we had ranked choice voting. But under our current system, voting third party is throwing your vote away and possibly helping to elect your least favorite candidate.
bijouxbroussard 路 F
@LeopoldBloom I hate ranked choice voting and if they changed our system to include it in our presidential elections I would probably stop voting, after 40 years of participating. As someone who sees it used in our local elections, I can tell you it means almost no input.
LordShadowfire 路 M
@LeopoldBloom I learned that lesson the hard way in 2016. My third party vote could have been used to keep Trump out of office instead.
LeopoldBloom 路 M
@bijouxbroussard It runs the risk of electing everyone鈥檚 second choice and forces candidates to be less polarizing. It鈥檚 being used in Maine but I don鈥檛 think the results were that different from what they would have been without it.
You have to admit that the CA recall process is demented, where someone like Larry Elder could have been elected Governor with 25% of the vote. They need to change that to where the Lieutenant Governor is automatically elevated if the Governor is recalled. That would end these Republican power grabs as they won鈥檛 want to replace a Democrat with another Democrat.
You have to admit that the CA recall process is demented, where someone like Larry Elder could have been elected Governor with 25% of the vote. They need to change that to where the Lieutenant Governor is automatically elevated if the Governor is recalled. That would end these Republican power grabs as they won鈥檛 want to replace a Democrat with another Democrat.
bijouxbroussard 路 F
@LeopoldBloom Exactly right. If [b]that[/b] line of succession were clarified, you鈥檇 stop seeing these recall attempts immediately.