If you are a white leftist and you talk “both parties are the same they are both capitalist” you will loose most of your black audience. I think it ought to be obvious that this isn’t because blackfolks love Democrats (in most cases, there is always someone being simple in any group) —no. it’s because the difference between the parties is material and obvious and these are unstable times.
When I hear such talk I wonder if the speaker is working on voter suppression.
Voting brings me no joy — but I never miss an election out of a kind of stubborn spite. I’ve never heard anyone explain how having all the marginalized and left leaning people not vote would be more annoying to the Democrats and Republicans than if we all do vote— and for the Democrats especially in the primaries.
I also don’t think voting is real political engagement, but it’s kind of the bare minimum. Even if you do a write-in for every office.
@stib That would be interesting. But it would also mean we’d inevitably have an openly fascist “america first” party — Then there would be the coalitions needed to get anything done. I used to think breaking up the two party system would help but I no longer really think it would be any better and in some ways it would be worse.
If we really did universal suffrage we could get pretty far. And make up the difference in local politics.
Most democracies do have proportional voting where the amount of power comes from the amount of votes. In most of them this works fine. Not perfect but fine.
I am not American, but from what I understand you already have coalitions in the US system, they are just hidden in back room meetings, in groups like the "freedom caucus"?
Having a proportional voting system means this kind of coalition building is all in the open, where people can see it and scrutinise it, and where they can choose which faction their vote goes to.
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