Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election
Male Gen Z voters are breaking with Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election.
Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026.
Younger Gen Z men, those born between 2002 and 2007, may be even more anti-Trump, according to October research from YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project, a potential sign that their time living through the social upheavals of the Covid pandemic and not being political aware during the first Trump administration may be shaping their experience.
Other countries have voting systems designed to support a multi-party system. Before we can have this we need something like ranked choice or STAR voting or approval voting. Otherwise if you vote for a third party right now you end up supporting the politician you like least due to the spoiler effect.
Note that reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect it kind of seems like RCV only helps reduce the impact of spoilers but does not fully eliminate it.
This is also a great article: https://effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers/ranked-choice-voting
There’s a slight issue with this way of thinking.
Problem: The two party system is preventing us from enacting reforms
Solution: Use the two party system to enact reforms getting rid of the two party system, so we can start enact reforms.
Problem: My car won’t start.
Solution: Drive down to the mechanic and he’ll fix it so you can start driving places
Problem: Asking the king nicely hasn’t been an effective method of stopping him from taking all our grain.
Solution: Ask the king nicely to institute democracy so that you won’t have to rely on asking the king nicely to make things happen.
Y’all always remind me of the fable about the mice who all decide that it’d be much better if the cat had a bell around its neck so they could hear it coming, but then one mouse asks, “How are we gonna get the bell there? Who’s gonna tie it?” and nobody has an answer.
This was shared to me on lemmy. It helped me understand the advantages STAR voting has over RCV.
That said, RCV would still be a massive improvement over FPTP voting.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
What’s the relevance? The point of my post is that you are voting for a clearly right-wing party and the expectation that they will become left-wing is irrational. The existence of a spoiler effect does not negate this reality. It is incredibly incoherent to say, “we should vote in the right-wingers because we’re afraid of the spoiler effect,” then turn around and say that the right-wingers are "stupid’ for not running left-wing candidates as a right-wing party. It makes no sense. If you think you should never vote for a left-wing party out of fear of the spoiler effect, then you are really conceding that a left-wing government is impossible in the USA under its current form, and only maybe hypothetically in the far future if we ever have a different form, maybe with RCV, would it be possible.
you rn
You are literally upset that I pointed out a giant contradiction in your worldview.
Yes, I hold both positions in my head simultaneously and you do not.