Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.
My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.
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I emigrated. I'll vote by mail and hope for the best, but the two party system America has will inevitably produce horrible results.
Choosing between only two options is not freedom by any means.
Nor is it democracy.
It's why we have primaries. People's inability to understand the importance of primaries simultaneously means they don't vote in them and hate the results. (On average)
The primaries are just a smoke screen. You want to get rid of all the shitty parts of the US voting system? Get rid of the Electoral College. Get rid of the First-Past-the-Post voting system we have been shackled to and all the issues disappear.
CGP Gray did a great series of videos in YouTube like a decade ago about our voting system, alternatives, and how many issues are created from just the Electoral College alone. Unfortunately, those elected stand to lose the most if the process changed so it never will.
CGP Grey didn't cover primaries.
Didn't the democrat party say they wouldn't allow primary debates this election, because Biden was the clear winner?
Yeah, I think that's dumb but debates aren't inherently required for elections.
They are not required, but it doesn't sound like a free democracy, if there's no debate.
Are any of these debates really debates?
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There are bigger problems in America, if everything was working I might not vote... as it is you can rest assured my vote is essentially meaningless due to the electoral college.