Fuck the Neolibs and Neocons.

The establishment. Not red, not blue. Just a shitty shade of purple. @TheOneyouwerewarnedabout

@ReptilianFromPlanetCrush exactly.

@ReptilianFromPlanetCrush so that's why you absolutely never name an alternative. You're with them.

@GeistInTheMachine I don't have a weak mindset, I believe in working within the system to reform it. We're very far from a revolution, and if we did have one, it's more likely that we'd end up with a theocratic dictatorship than the socialist worker's paradise you have in mind.

I support ranked choice voting, and am encouraged that it seems to be gaining in popularity. Ranked choice voting encourages the election of politicians who appeal to a wider range of voters than the current first past the post system that relies on motivating your base to turn out. The proof is in Alaska, where Mary Peltola crushed Sarah Palin. Peltola crafted her campaign to appeal to as many people as possible by focusing on issues that affected them, while Palin relied on motivating right-wing extremists. This is the problem DeSantis, Trump, and pretty much all of the other Republicans will have in 2024, where their strategy depends on being as divisive as possible. But your vote doesn't count more because you're really, really enthusiastic.

@LeopoldBloom Lmao, socialist paradise? You're talking to the wrong dude if you think that's what I am advocating for.

Yes, I am a reformist at heart, but the system is kaput. It needs to go. But there needs to be a multifaceted approach. But it starts with people educating themselves and not being so defeatist or weak minded and being willing to be strong and take some risks.

Frankly, I also think the States should break up at some point potentially because we need to isolate the Trump people into their own regions so they can stop trying to take everyone down with them. They don't respect anyone else, you can't play ball with them. The South should have been let go.

They rely on gerrymandered and electoral college bullshit and big money corruption because they don't have the numbers or even the ideas, plus they don't care about anyone and don't want to be civilized.

@GeistInTheMachine The problem is that the motivated people are on both sides. Our current system has the potential to improve without being totally dismantled, because what replaces it could be even worse.

The divide today isn't between red and blue states, it's between blue cities and red rural areas. As for the South, I live in Georgia, which has two Democratic senators and voted for Biden in the last election, mainly due to the influx of people into the Atlanta area over the past decade. Even in California, the rural areas are extremely conservative, they're just outnumbered by the liberals in SoCal and the Bay Area. There's no way to split the US up into different countries without massive displacement.

You should read the Federalist Papers, which make a good case as to why it's better to have a larger, unified country than several smaller ones. Look at what's happening in the UK, just from them leaving the EU. And if we had allowed the Confederacy to secede peacefully, there would have been an inevitable war over the lands to the west. And imagine how the 20th century would have been different if the Union had allied with the USSR and the Confederacy with Nazi Germany.

@BohoBabe This is a surprisingly apt comparison. In both cases, exploitation is inevitable, but quality of life varies sharply between them.

@JPWhoo no alternatives to mention? Ever? Of course not.

@JPWhoo Alright. But the Dems need the GOP guppies, otherwise less people over time may support their neolib asses.

@GeistInTheMachine that's Andrew Yang's project, and it's not impossible. He has a name.

@Roundandroundwego Good for him. I'm not big on his idea. I don't have to carry water for his UBI thing, I am wary of it because the corporates and the US Government will use it as a reason to screw us harder. I don't trust the implimentation, but I give him credit for thinking outside the box and being politically incorrect enough to not play within the same boring stagnant game we are all being coralled into playing.

@GeistInTheMachine his election project. Yang's other, much newer thing. Nobody know! Shhhhhh.

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@StygianKohlrabi Fuck the globalist neolibs.