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Why isn't anyone helping? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If the republicans have no chance to get into office because the democrats reach a critical percent of the vote every time, it opens up the doors to a progressive party or reform within the democrats that would allow for ranked choice voting to become a debated issue.

Bingo.

If we keep voting for a traitor party that deconstructs our federal government every other election then we'll never reach a place of stability where we can push things further to the left and open up debates on universal healthcare and ranked choice voting.

Right now Americans are basically children that slingshot back and forth between the parties because neither one solves every problem known to man in 4-8 short years. If we managed to elect Democrats for more than 4-8 years at a time we'd see massive progressive change in this country.

You're only ever going to have a chance at that by continually voting for the better, more malleable party. Or violent revolution. And I'm getting too old for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Negative. Neither party has interest in voter reform. Voting democrat is not a valid path for this. Of the few things the two parties agree on, not losing the ability to frame a vote around their actual interests is at the top. If they allowed ranked choice voting they would see more Bernie Sanders or much higher support of third party candidates who actually run on progressive issues. It is plainly obvious they do not wish to share the spotlight:

https://dcist.com/story/23/08/07/dc-democrats-sue-to-stop-ranked-choice-voting-initiative/

The Democrats outright state their reason to oppose vote reform is that it would “confuse” the voters, and would undermine the parties candidate selection process. Because the party is to choose the candidates, not the constituents. And nothing will get in their way of having a Neo liberal as the only option against authoritarianism.