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It is frustrating to watch. Each party chooses a candidate that party members want and neither candidate represents what the majority of voters want but they’re forced to pick one or the other. There is surely enough voters who want something different to elect a third candidate but people are afraid that splitting the vote will lead to the worst candidate winning and so vote for one of the two parties, feeling like there is no other option.
Canada has the same problem. A lot of us wanted to vote NDP in April, but were afraid splitting the vote would lead to a conservative win and so we voted liberal.
Extremely ignorant take. The majority of people want ranked choice, the government is just setup in such a way that it is exceedingly difficult to achieve, though there are people trying. Plus a 3rd party has literally zero chance until that happens so you even bringing that up demonstrates how fucking stupid your plan actually is
But why bother using your brain when you can just whine about Ameridumbs ehhahhehahehhhahahehhahehahahahhehahah
The primaries are the equiivalent of ranked choice voting. The idea is that each party, so each side of the political spectrum, brings out their “best” candidates and the populace votes on who best represents them. The winners of that move on to the general.
It isn’t quite the same but it also isn’t THAT far off the reality of how the votes turn out when the counting is done. And, theoretically, it encourages party platforms that incorporate the more popular parts of each popular candidate’s platforms. And that… sometimes happens.
You have absolutely no idea how ranked choice or primaries work.
Let’s suppose the Democrat primary has two progressives and one neolib. The progressives get 28% and 32% of the vote…a total of 60% of the vote. The one neolib gets 40%.
Progressive policies are more popular, but neolib won.
This is the curse of FPTP.
Ranked choice would say that those 60% prefer one or the other progressive with the neolib being last. The result is theore popular progressive won, and more importantly, a progressive won.
As opposed to ranked choice where no candidate gets a plurality, both progressives get eliminated, and the second choice “neolib” votes win? Because “the neolib” is also getting a fair amount of moderate and even conservative votes.
At which point “the neolib” flips everyone off and wins? As opposed to needs to convince the two progressives to support them in exchange for platform concessions?
Ranked choice would say that those 60% prefer one or the other progressive with the neolib being last. The result is theore popular progressive won, and more importantly, a progressive won.
Or we can just simplify your post to “under this system, people will vote the way I want them to” and leave it at that?
Americans are too stupid to vote for a 3rd party and they’re too stupid to implement any kind of ranked choice voting.
We all suffer because of our collective stupidity, and rich people continue to profit off of it.
It is frustrating to watch. Each party chooses a candidate that party members want and neither candidate represents what the majority of voters want but they’re forced to pick one or the other. There is surely enough voters who want something different to elect a third candidate but people are afraid that splitting the vote will lead to the worst candidate winning and so vote for one of the two parties, feeling like there is no other option.
Canada has the same problem. A lot of us wanted to vote NDP in April, but were afraid splitting the vote would lead to a conservative win and so we voted liberal.
Oh no, we aren’t too stupid to implement ranked choice voting, we live in a country run by people who have a vested interest in not implementing it
Por que no los dos?
MA lost the ballot initiative for ranked choice voting by lobbyists who made enough people believe it’s too complicated.
Too complicated? Motherfucker you’ve been ranking favorite things longer than you’ve been shitting on a toilet.
ooh now im thinking lets just do tier list of canidates.
That’s almost literally exactly what RCV is.
almost. the problem with tier lists is maga folks would put trump as S tier and someone like me would not rank anyone above B and more likely C.
Extremely ignorant take. The majority of people want ranked choice, the government is just setup in such a way that it is exceedingly difficult to achieve, though there are people trying. Plus a 3rd party has literally zero chance until that happens so you even bringing that up demonstrates how fucking stupid your plan actually is
But why bother using your brain when you can just whine about Ameridumbs ehhahhehahehhhahahehhahehahahahhehahah
The primaries are the equiivalent of ranked choice voting. The idea is that each party, so each side of the political spectrum, brings out their “best” candidates and the populace votes on who best represents them. The winners of that move on to the general.
It isn’t quite the same but it also isn’t THAT far off the reality of how the votes turn out when the counting is done. And, theoretically, it encourages party platforms that incorporate the more popular parts of each popular candidate’s platforms. And that… sometimes happens.
You have absolutely no idea how ranked choice or primaries work.
Let’s suppose the Democrat primary has two progressives and one neolib. The progressives get 28% and 32% of the vote…a total of 60% of the vote. The one neolib gets 40%.
Progressive policies are more popular, but neolib won.
This is the curse of FPTP.
Ranked choice would say that those 60% prefer one or the other progressive with the neolib being last. The result is theore popular progressive won, and more importantly, a progressive won.
It sounds like the progressives just need to coalesce around one candidate in the primary then, like the neolibs have done, and then they would win.
It sounds like you’re opposed to having more choice in who represents you.
As opposed to ranked choice where no candidate gets a plurality, both progressives get eliminated, and the second choice “neolib” votes win? Because “the neolib” is also getting a fair amount of moderate and even conservative votes.
At which point “the neolib” flips everyone off and wins? As opposed to needs to convince the two progressives to support them in exchange for platform concessions?
Or we can just simplify your post to “under this system, people will vote the way I want them to” and leave it at that?