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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House
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People see comments like this and get discouraged to vote or do anything meaningful. Life is choosing the lesser of two evils. By not choosing you have chosen the greater evil thus making you complicit.
So shut up and be happy.
*Life in MURICA...
Bullshit. Electoral reform in the blue states must happen. Red states as well but we all know republicans stance on more democracy.
Democrats have lost their "we are the only people resisting the republicans" privilege. They should have lost it long ago but we sure gave em every chance we could. No more chances, no more safe states/seats.
This shouldn't be hard to pass. Alaska already has a Ranked choice voting system. Plus Democrats are huge democracy supporters... right?
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
If you do electoral reform in just the blue states, you strengthen the republicans who will then take all of the red states, and get a bit of some blue states
Who says electoral reform only happens in blue states? Alaska has always been Republican since the beginning of its statehood but they have better electoral system with its ranked choice voting.
Fact of the matter is that most Americans are somewhere in the middle, and have more in common than you would be led to believe. Social media being controlled by powers that be divide and conquer the hearts and minds of ordinary Americans. If Alaska managed to even have a progressive system despite being a red state, then so are others. Get like-minded people in red states to also organise. Contrary to stereotype, there are many conservatives who are sane and also agree that money in politics is the major problem. You just haven't found them.
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Judging from the downvotes, there are plenty of liberals who benefit from the status quo and choosing to be tone deaf.
Yes, that's more or less central to liberalism.
Always.
That lesser evil still don't want Medicare for all, raise the federal minimum wage, and building more affordable housing-- all of which are actually what suffocate many Americans in the ever worsening wealth inequality. That's why people took the chance to vote Trump who promised tax cut, even though most Americans know they it doesn't actually benefit them but the 1%.
Look outside of the American mainstream news bubble and discourse that want you to pick the two lesser evils, instead of thinking outside the box. The only way for ordinary Americans to win basic rights is to organise and mobilise by advocating both ranked choice voting and promoting third parties. It won't happen in federal level so start on the local and state levels, and the changes will go up the chain to federal level. It's not like Americans haven't gone and out mobilised before for a better change. The people simply need to rediscover that they have the power.
Let the greater of two evils win until there's a perfect option to vote for. Got it.
Eight hour working day, even the basic implementation of minimum wage, forbidding child labour, abolishing slavery, women being allowed to work outside their home and even 14-day paid leave were once considered "not perfect".
Do you know how these aforementioned basic rights and privileges we take for granted were actually achieved? Organising. But of course liberals won't get it. They benefit from the status quo. Either that or many Americans have been conditioned to think within an allowed frame of discourse by corporations and its media.
Hey, if you organise but vote D in the cases where it's the best chance to keep R out, I'm happy
If you don't vote D in the cases where it's the best chance to keep R out, you're effectively supporting R regardless what you're telling yourself. If you're also organising, nice, but if your organising is to convince more people to effectively support R like you, we'd all be better off if you quit.
Who says vote D or R? Organise to have other third parties. They may not have a chance to win in federal elections, but they do well in local and state elections. Then work your way up to influence the federal government (and it's not like there has never been a third party gaining seats in Congress and Senate).
Read the quote from Noam Chomsky. You're being bamboozled to think tribally. You probably just don't hear about third parties in local and state level because the media wants you think within a spectrum of thoughts they allow people to have. Think outside the box. There are many other options.
Go for it, but also vote D where they're the only realistic option to R.
Otherwise, support for a third party becomes support for R, as previously with the greens
Lol. You're still missing the point. Democrats are still the same people who don't want any third parties to be elected. Why would they allow that to happen if the current system is what also puts them in power like the Republicans?
Think outside the box.
Bad Change - Republicans
"Fundamentally nothing will change" - Democrats
Change Americans need - ?
You will be happy with the breadcrumbs we give you or you are getting a bad change from Republicans. - Democrats
Americans want Medicare for all, raising minimum wage and affordable housing, which Democrats are voting down. If you don't recognise that then you benefit from the status quo and refuse to admit it.
You will be happy with the bad change we give you because the bad change from republicans will be worse - democrats.
Hang on. You're saying that Democrats want bad change. But the other guy says nothing will change. Do liberals want change or no change? I'm so confused. No wonder the Democrats would rather lose.
Two people can speculate differently concerning the same set of circumstances. I hope this clears things up for you.