Left or right politics forcing voters to choose between two sides and ultimately become single issue voters is a deep state psy op to literally make everyone hate politics and allow oligarchical control.
Okay but the two-party FPTP system is a separate issue that we can’t immediately fix right now. The immediate issue that’s right in front of us today is whether we put up road blocks to resist fascism, or whether we tear out the few road blocks that are left.
So for someone to sit on the sidelines and say “it doesn’t matter either way because I disagree with the binary nature of the dichotomy on a matter of principle” is simply asinine.
Psy Op worked. Show me on the dotted line where the Democratic Party has acknowledged tackling and replacing the first past the post system in a serious manner? I still vote, because yes what else is there to do, but that’s the beauty of the psy op. You feel like you’re participating, but it’s just a show :)
Here are the current results of Alaska Measure 2 (2026), designed to repeal Alaska’s ranked-choice voting. You can see that “Yes” votes are from predominantly Republican areas and “No” ones are from predominantly Democratic ones (note: Alaska is “flipped” from pretty much everywhere else in the US, where its largest city, Anchorage, is the state’s Republican stronghold, while rural areas tend to be more Democratic).
Likewise, if you look at the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, you’ll see that it’s predominantly Democratic states that have signed themselves into it. This is still first-past-the-post, but that’s still meaningful progressive reform when the current situation is the Electoral College – FPTP 50 times amalgamated into one final FPTP vote.
Likewise, if you look at this article, you’ll see the states exploring ranked-choice are mostly Democratic ones.
Voting is largely up to the states, so you’ll want to look at the state level, not the federal. It’s pretty obvious that Democratic voters are the ones hankering for things like ranked-choice voting, and thus it’s inherently more likely that a Democratic-led government will implement voting reform than the Republican Party whose constituents actively oppose such reform.
Nope. I voted. I’m just being realistic about the psy op; My vote even for shit candidates in a non representative first past the post system serves as part of my protest.
I’m glad to hear it. Most users I see here echoing your frustrations push the “don’t vote” rhetoric. I agree votes can and should be more valuable, but even a little bit of value can accumulate enough to make some change, like the US is seeing tonight. Thanks for doing your part.
Yeah. It’s disheartening to see those who don’t vote or argue for not voting. I might not believe our current system is good, but I can’t be arsed to ask anyone to help fix it if I don’t do the basics to participate. One of the first things I’d ask of a representative government is opt out automatic voter enrollment combined with ranked choice voting, I believe we sorely need it.
Left or right politics forcing voters to choose between two sides and ultimately become single issue voters is a deep state psy op to literally make everyone hate politics and allow oligarchical control.
Okay but the two-party FPTP system is a separate issue that we can’t immediately fix right now. The immediate issue that’s right in front of us today is whether we put up road blocks to resist fascism, or whether we tear out the few road blocks that are left.
So for someone to sit on the sidelines and say “it doesn’t matter either way because I disagree with the binary nature of the dichotomy on a matter of principle” is simply asinine.
Psy Op worked. Show me on the dotted line where the Democratic Party has acknowledged tackling and replacing the first past the post system in a serious manner? I still vote, because yes what else is there to do, but that’s the beauty of the psy op. You feel like you’re participating, but it’s just a show :)
Here are the current results of Alaska Measure 2 (2026), designed to repeal Alaska’s ranked-choice voting. You can see that “Yes” votes are from predominantly Republican areas and “No” ones are from predominantly Democratic ones (note: Alaska is “flipped” from pretty much everywhere else in the US, where its largest city, Anchorage, is the state’s Republican stronghold, while rural areas tend to be more Democratic).
Likewise, if you look at the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, you’ll see that it’s predominantly Democratic states that have signed themselves into it. This is still first-past-the-post, but that’s still meaningful progressive reform when the current situation is the Electoral College – FPTP 50 times amalgamated into one final FPTP vote.
Likewise, if you look at this article, you’ll see the states exploring ranked-choice are mostly Democratic ones.
Voting is largely up to the states, so you’ll want to look at the state level, not the federal. It’s pretty obvious that Democratic voters are the ones hankering for things like ranked-choice voting, and thus it’s inherently more likely that a Democratic-led government will implement voting reform than the Republican Party whose constituents actively oppose such reform.
No, your psyop didn’t work actually. Your comment is only 5 hours old and it already aged like milk
🙌 I’m not part of it but sure.
murrican democratic systemic skill issue.
Murrican democracy id actually quite a crap example of democracy
It’s not an example of a democracy at all. It’s an oligarchy.
So your answer is to let them win on voting instead of fighting on every front available to you?
Nope. I voted. I’m just being realistic about the psy op; My vote even for shit candidates in a non representative first past the post system serves as part of my protest.
I’m glad to hear it. Most users I see here echoing your frustrations push the “don’t vote” rhetoric. I agree votes can and should be more valuable, but even a little bit of value can accumulate enough to make some change, like the US is seeing tonight. Thanks for doing your part.
Yeah. It’s disheartening to see those who don’t vote or argue for not voting. I might not believe our current system is good, but I can’t be arsed to ask anyone to help fix it if I don’t do the basics to participate. One of the first things I’d ask of a representative government is opt out automatic voter enrollment combined with ranked choice voting, I believe we sorely need it.