Political Memes @lemmy.world balderdash @lemmy.zip 11 hr. ago

We deserve better.

Another reason to like Tim Walz. He has openly supported RCV: https://www.rcvbloomington.org/supporters

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Elected nixon, elected bush, elected another bush, elected donald fucking trump, every president in between is just: well at least it's not _______

We deserve better. Do you?
its going to be just like marijuana reform. forcibly, by the citizens county by county, state by state and it will take another 40 years
- lol specifically banning RCV is on my states ballot this November, we won’t be able to do county by county in Missouri if it passes and they’ve tacked it onto some anti absentee vote nonsense so it’s probably going to pass
  
  Bruh they really do hate democracy dont they
- Start by supporting the RCV ballot initiative going on in Oregon this November. Donate and volunteer even if you're not in Oregon. If we're lucky Oregon will approve it and show everyone else both vote by mail AND RCV works perfectly fine.
  https://www.oregonrcv.org/
How about just not having a winner-takes-all system?
- Ah yes, the method by which the Nazi party began their rise to power
  
  the method which almost the entire world uses in one way or another?
  
  no it totally make sense that if a candidate wins a state by 50.1% then the votes of the 49.9% should go directly to the winner as well.
  
  the fact that you can lose the popular vote and is win an election is fucking bananas.
  
  winner takes all is extremely undemocratic.
  
  Yeah, it was the voting system that was the problem.
  
  /s
These kinds of reforms would be so much easier to implement under a monarchy or some kind of dictatorial state.
- Lets make democracy better.
  
  Have you tried dictators?
  
  Well golly it just takes so darn long to make systemic changes, y’know? No wonder all the Swifties, er, Lefties or whoever are so gol dang mad. It’s hard work.
- I hope this is sarcastic. Because yes, one-party/dictator states CAN implement changes incredibly fast. It's why China is able to get so much infrastructure and nuclear/renewable energy installed so fast... it's just, yknow, the rest of the problems are uhhhhhhhhhhhh
  
  Of course. I deliberately didn’t put a /s because it’s ludicrous but it was a fun litmus test
- I think you just gave Nathan Poe an aneurism.
- Trivially easy in fact, until they became impossible to implement when the dictator didn't step down.
  
  Well that wouldn’t be very helpful!

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