9th June 2020, 11:15 PM
I'd really like ranked choice voting in this country. I've always hated political parties in general, and I especially hate being limited to two choices, wherein one choice is terrible but has a very loyal base of idiots and the other choice is mediocre and whose greatest appeal is not being the other guy. I genuinely want this country to move forward economically, scientifically, and socially. We need real reform in healthcare, justice, education, and sustainable energy, but our choices are the status quo or regression.
And that's another thing: we don't even really have a progressive party. (For all the talk about Obama being a socialist that we heard for eight years, let's be real: Obama was capitalist af. How exactly was he a socialist? Because he subsidized our purchase of private sector, for-profit health insurance?) The commonly held misconception is that Democrats are progressives who want to change everything and Republicans are conservatives who want to keep everything the way it is. In actuality, Democrats are conservatives who want to keep everything the way it is and Republicans (the modern variety, anyway--Trump and his ilk) are regressives who just want to make everything worse ("lolol take that libtard snowflakes!").
With ranked choice voting and the abolition of the electoral college, independents and third party candidates would have a real chance of winning elections, and ideally, we could vote for the best candidate every four years instead of the less awful one. But now I'm living in an alternate reality...
And that's another thing: we don't even really have a progressive party. (For all the talk about Obama being a socialist that we heard for eight years, let's be real: Obama was capitalist af. How exactly was he a socialist? Because he subsidized our purchase of private sector, for-profit health insurance?) The commonly held misconception is that Democrats are progressives who want to change everything and Republicans are conservatives who want to keep everything the way it is. In actuality, Democrats are conservatives who want to keep everything the way it is and Republicans (the modern variety, anyway--Trump and his ilk) are regressives who just want to make everything worse ("lolol take that libtard snowflakes!").
With ranked choice voting and the abolition of the electoral college, independents and third party candidates would have a real chance of winning elections, and ideally, we could vote for the best candidate every four years instead of the less awful one. But now I'm living in an alternate reality...