Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Playing devil’s advocate here, a lot of the refuse to vote crowd see the democrats as also unacceptably evil, and in almost any other context I would agree with them. A lot of democrats are failing to push back against Trump and his bullshit, either out of cowardice or acceptance. Not to mention they’re encouraging the whole Isreal situation.
The immediate problem is that the US has roughly the worst voting system. Gerrymandered to shit, FPTP but even worse because you’re not voting directly. The solution (at least for now) is to change the voting system to something that allows third parties without the spoiler effect. Unfortunately there isn’t an easy path to reach that as far as I can see, because both democrats and republicans would be long gone if not for FPTP.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah, it’s hard to get politicians to change the system that git them voted in. Australia has ranked choice voting. I wish we had that in Canada. One of Justin Trudeaus’s campaign promises was to change the voting system but that didn’t end up happening