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Good thing they're not old enough to vote anyway right (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Local elections have a lot more impact on your day-to-day life. They're just not covered much because the audience for them is so tiny it's not profitable for the media to spend their time on them.

The other reason is that it builds up a roster of candidates that can use name recognition and experience to run for higher state or federal offices. For example, my state rep started off in the town council. (He's not a progressive by any means but it's nice having someone in office I went to high school with.)

The problem is that at the national level, because of the FPTP voting system, they will still need to be a Republican or a Democrat.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FPTP sounds good on paper, but if in the end they still need >50%, doesn't that defeat the entire point?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FPTP does sound good on paper, but for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, fast, and wrong. Here's the obligatory link to the CGP Grey video on the topic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well okay I didn't consider the entire picture of fptp. Having multiple options to choose from doesn't automatically turn into a two party system, how power is divided after an election is the problem.