tallwookieSome Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax
Flying SquidJust switch parties if you’re going to try to pull this bullshit. Bad enough that it happens, but you also have to tie it to the Democrats?
reject the 2 party system. none of them will ever represent a reasonable fan of political views for the majority of people
Maybe sometime, but I don’t want Trump to be president, so I don’t think I’ll be doing that next year.
For the billionth time, that’s why we need to get rid of first past the post voting. Its been mathematically proven that FPTP always devolves to two primary parties as it’s the most stable configuration. Literally any proportional voting system is better. The front runner is usually ranked choice, but there are a lot of options that all have advantages and disadvantage, so we need to just pick one and use it. We can always use a different one down the line, but the sooner FPTP dies the sooner we can start to develop a healthy selection of political parties.
TropicalDingdongok, but materially, how do we get there?
I don’t honestly know. Both of the primary parties are going to fight it tooth and nail because it would weaken them drastically and the last thing they want is more competition for votes. I think the only thing we can realistically do is keep spreading the message until the majority of the population is behind the idea just like the ground swell that’s working to get marijuana legalized. The problem of course, is that it’s not really an exciting thing to get people behind, it’s a pretty dry technical issue. So in the meantime, I guess just keep educating people, and keep putting pressure on elected officials to push for it.
Edit: Thinking about it more depending on how things go with the GOP there might be an opportunity there. If E.G. Trump or one of the other extremists manages to fracture the GOP into two competing conservative factions that neither have enough votes to win with we might be able to get conservative voters and politicians to actually back proportional voting as a pure survival tactic. At that point we’d only need to get a small subset of progressive politicians/voters to support it as well.