Unfortunately, Lemmy is turning into a chaotic echo chamber with a lot of hard left people.
A lot of the problem is “left blaming right” and vice versa; and while the current cabinet is doing a lot of dumb shit, THEY ALL DO IT! It’s time to get money out of politics or it will never EVER change. The way to do that is vote for a new, third party who doesn’t represent the wealthy class.
Enough people FROM ALL SIDES are fed up with it… Time to work together, not fight amongst ourselves! That is what the system wants so we always lose!
The new take is that we all, and I mean ALL work together, spread the word, choose a non-2-party candidate and rally behind them. Go viral, etc. With enough effort and enough momentum, in 2 years it could be undeniably possible to have an independent or 3rd party president. Green, Libertarian, Forward Party, Reform party, independent, whatever. I prefer Forward party mostly bc they’re aim is to be common sense and data driven policies, not favoring any “side”
Fight for ranked choice voting. Both sides have gerrymandered our districts to hell in a back and forth effort to give their team an advantage with no real concern about the people within those districts, they only care about how they can use their knowledge of likely outcomes to secure a win for the party’s choice of candidate.
With ranked choice having to pick between one of two candidates, the R & D the party decided to offer is eliminated because you might end up with 3 Rs and 3 Ds, all of which represent left and right ideals to a different level. Voters will be forced to pay closer attention if they really want to have their goals/values represented and can’t just default to my team/their team. It would also make it more difficult for parties to demand candidates stick to party doctrine. It would also be a foot in the door for third party candidates who don’t want to be associated with either of the juggernauts to start making gains, probably at local and state level first.
Even if candidates decide to align with the established parties, what’s up for vote will represent a wider array of options of opinions on how the party should move forward, the people pick rather than the party masters telling us “it’s our guy or their guy, and we know you’ll vote for whoever we offer”. It is a first step in diluting the power of the two parties to control their teams because while I don’t doubt they’d still throw money behind their top pick, they wouldn’t be able to assure the final outcome is just an A or B, party Dem vs party GOP showdown. It’d also make it a lot harder for them to constantly redraw the maps every election to predict the best possible outcome.
Both sides are definitely NOT the same. Not even remotely close. However, I agree with you, both sides are not “good”. Making that argument is disingenuous at best.
We really need a clean sweep to remove all of the entrenched shit stains that are “serving their constituents”, basically across the board.
Then right behind that we need ACTUAL justice to hold people accountable for the shit show that has been the last 10 years plus.
The problem is that until we remove our First Past the Post voting system this will never change.
Unfortunately, Lemmy is turning into a chaotic echo chamber with a lot of hard left people.
A lot of the problem is “left blaming right” and vice versa; and while the current cabinet is doing a lot of dumb shit, THEY ALL DO IT! It’s time to get money out of politics or it will never EVER change. The way to do that is vote for a new, third party who doesn’t represent the wealthy class.
Enough people FROM ALL SIDES are fed up with it… Time to work together, not fight amongst ourselves! That is what the system wants so we always lose!
I was hopeful you had a new take, one that doesn’t benefit Republicans hugely. Sucks I was wrong.
The new take is that we all, and I mean ALL work together, spread the word, choose a non-2-party candidate and rally behind them. Go viral, etc. With enough effort and enough momentum, in 2 years it could be undeniably possible to have an independent or 3rd party president. Green, Libertarian, Forward Party, Reform party, independent, whatever. I prefer Forward party mostly bc they’re aim is to be common sense and data driven policies, not favoring any “side”
Fight for ranked choice voting. Both sides have gerrymandered our districts to hell in a back and forth effort to give their team an advantage with no real concern about the people within those districts, they only care about how they can use their knowledge of likely outcomes to secure a win for the party’s choice of candidate.
With ranked choice having to pick between one of two candidates, the R & D the party decided to offer is eliminated because you might end up with 3 Rs and 3 Ds, all of which represent left and right ideals to a different level. Voters will be forced to pay closer attention if they really want to have their goals/values represented and can’t just default to my team/their team. It would also make it more difficult for parties to demand candidates stick to party doctrine. It would also be a foot in the door for third party candidates who don’t want to be associated with either of the juggernauts to start making gains, probably at local and state level first.
Even if candidates decide to align with the established parties, what’s up for vote will represent a wider array of options of opinions on how the party should move forward, the people pick rather than the party masters telling us “it’s our guy or their guy, and we know you’ll vote for whoever we offer”. It is a first step in diluting the power of the two parties to control their teams because while I don’t doubt they’d still throw money behind their top pick, they wouldn’t be able to assure the final outcome is just an A or B, party Dem vs party GOP showdown. It’d also make it a lot harder for them to constantly redraw the maps every election to predict the best possible outcome.
Both sides are definitely NOT the same. Not even remotely close. However, I agree with you, both sides are not “good”. Making that argument is disingenuous at best.
We really need a clean sweep to remove all of the entrenched shit stains that are “serving their constituents”, basically across the board.
Then right behind that we need ACTUAL justice to hold people accountable for the shit show that has been the last 10 years plus.
The problem is that until we remove our First Past the Post voting system this will never change.
Hard left people don’t blame just Trump… You’re mistaking liberals for “hard left”, but liberals are right of center on most issues.
“Unfortunately” 😘