Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault
plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Gerrymandering exists
Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault
plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Gerrymandering exists
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This, and First Past the Post.
People treating complex problems like they have binary solutions are myopic in their views. If it were as simple as just voting out the bad guys, we’d be in a whole different world right now, and things pike Project 2025 would not exist.
There is no simple solution, and voting is — by itself — not the solution.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
And the electoral college. And the senate making land more important than people. Or putting a cap on the numbers of representatives in the house