Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.

ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Germany we only vote on Sundays and it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience. We’re still lucky when more than two thirds vote. People are in general are lazy and stupid.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Super einfach, kaum eine Unannehmlichkeit!”

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ryan, that you?

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• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You’ll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they’ll make their choices like a popularity contest.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mandatory vote solves nothing

    It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.

    In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.

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• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, I think it’s exactly the opposite. They don’t have to do anything that people want to vote for them anyway.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blue Fash on Lemmy:

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    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People on this website are understandably losing their minds because we’ve let this type of politics fester so much that the stakes are genuinely high this election cycle. But the stakes are only so high because we keep attempting the same thing over and over again. At this point, I’m not even advocating for a third party. I just want Democrats to do better instead of being less crappy than the other guys.

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• Oisteink@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as long as they vote along party lines more than according to what the politicians do, number of votes does not improve this.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can vote for whichever politician you like, so long as it’s AIPAC approved.

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• eatthecake@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That would be Australia. We are less extreme than the US but still succumb to fear tactics. We did manage to get marriage equality despite a conservative government so there’s that.

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• Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Make voting the last part of doing your taxes. You get $5 for voting. The person is already verified when submitring, piggyback on that process.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t that how it works in Australia?

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