I expect that US politicians who actually want to serve the public find themselves in the same predicament as voters who want to support good things for humanity.
The two-party situation is not only an emergent property of our voting system, but it is entrenched culturally as well.
So if you want to do good things in a government position, do you take up the label of a coalition that has plenty of shitty members and bad policies, or do you wear your independent badge with honor in obscurity?
Oh and the other party is WAY WAY FUCKING WORSE in every conceivable way and is not an option. Even the worst aspects of your potential party pale in comparison to what those other guys do on those same policies.
And the best part is that those way way fucking worse evil guys consistently get half the votes!
Yeah exactly. It’s all part of the known existing machinations of the system that the candidate is trying to be a part of. The media will sideline you for corrupt reasons and millions of voters who agree with you will blow you off for dumb reasons.
I expect that US politicians who actually want to serve the public find themselves in the same predicament as voters who want to support good things for humanity.
The two-party situation is not only an emergent property of our voting system, but it is entrenched culturally as well.
So if you want to do good things in a government position, do you take up the label of a coalition that has plenty of shitty members and bad policies, or do you wear your independent badge with honor in obscurity?
Oh and the other party is WAY WAY FUCKING WORSE in every conceivable way and is not an option. Even the worst aspects of your potential party pale in comparison to what those other guys do on those same policies.
And the best part is that those way way fucking worse evil guys consistently get half the votes!
“obscurity” is the result of these two parties and the government spending billions of public money in propaganda.
AOC isn’t on the fediverse and use X and meta
Yeah exactly. It’s all part of the known existing machinations of the system that the candidate is trying to be a part of. The media will sideline you for corrupt reasons and millions of voters who agree with you will blow you off for dumb reasons.