• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That sounds exactly like what someone would say who had a vested interest in making people give up on voting.

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      2 days ago

      Name an issue and I’ll show you how the ratcheting effect works. Sorry if reality conflicts with blueMAGA

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          24 hours ago

          I’ll admit that it’s not an issue that I’m especially familiar with. What are they doing to implement it on the national level? The best the Democrats can do is promise it for 2028 primaries. In my eyes that’s just more delay tactics

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            23 hours ago

            If you are interested in breaking the two party system, it is literally the most important issue out there. IMO there is no way, outside of violent revolution, of breaking up the two party system besides this.

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              20 hours ago

              I agree with that much, but I’m not familiar with it as a political issue outside of “Republicans hate it, democrats are tepid”

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      2 days ago

      Many former two party countries have managed to elect third, fourth and fifth+ parties, usually once the voters are sick enough of being forced to vote for the lesser evil every cycle.

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        I don’t know which examples you are thinking of, but I would bet that is after changes in the law or without an explicit constitutional procedure on voting.

        As far as voting for the lesser evil, that is beyond naive. Every election is voting for the leaser evil. If you expect to find a candidate you agree with 100%, you will be waiting til the heat death of the universe.