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Marco Arment Jul 2, 2024

It DOES suck. Democrats ARE ineffective and DO fail to undo most of the GOP’s damage. Even when Dems have full power, they somehow never have any power. That's all correct, and it's frustrating as hell.

That's a stand to take in the primaries.

And then in November, vote like hell for Biden.

Not voting, voting third-party, or voting Republican isn't sending a message to the Democrats. It's literally just voting for a FAR worse, FAR more evil, anti-American dictatorship.
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Arcticulate Jul 2, 2024

@marcoarment It’s so weird to hear this, because it works in a similar way in Sweden: when the the left-politics parties are in power they sip coffee all four years and discuss measures they dream about seeing, while the right-wing parties’ strategy is to wreak havoc with high efficiency destruction, without blinking twice. We don’t have a two-party system and the prime minister is the leader, but there are two group formations which behave similarly to the two-party system.

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Ben Munson Jul 2, 2024

@Arcticulate @marcoarment yes both systems have veto points that terrible actors use to their advantage. It sucks.

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Arcticulate Jul 4, 2024

@archaica @marcoarment However, in our case, the prime minister does not have any time limit on being in the leader position. Hypothetically speaking (definitely not in real terms), a 20 year old politician sitting in the “winning” party can be revoted as the prime minister until the person goes into retirement, 42+ years later.

It’s still a democratic process and nothing corrupt going on in such a case – it’s just easier to win the lottery than that happening.

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Arcticulate Jul 4, 2024

@archaica @marcoarment What I mean is: if the people of the nation votes for the same party again and again every 4th year and the prime minister wants to continue leading the party and that party is renewing their support for the person (“likeable”), then sure.

Between 1996 and 2006 (3 825 days ≈ 10.5 years), we had the same prime minister, non stop.

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Arcticulate

@archaica @marcoarment Yes, I know, it’s not 4 years x 3 or 4 years x 2. It’s more complicated than that sometimes, depending on the political drama sometimes happening mid-term, etc.