• LethalSmack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The problem is that this isn’t the will of the people. Preliminaries don’t count as an election so your vote for which candidate that appears on the actual ballot is just a suggestion.

    The party committees gets final say on who’s on the ballot for that party to vote for.

    Which leads to the problem of the 2 party system where we vote for the least worst candidate

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      1 year ago

      Then vote for independents, or people whose parties don’t pull that shit.

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        1 year ago

        And that is the problem with the 2 party system. No one votes that way because not enough people do. Instead everyone voted for less bad option between the 2 major parties. Which happen to be the choices the political committee chose, not the people.

      • kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, you might as well not vote. You’re never going to sway enough people to vote independent to challenge one of the big two, especially since the choice right now is between old people or people trying to establish a fascist theocracy.

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          Rewarding the groups that manipulate the system to hold onto power seems like a terrible way to enact change.

          Choice right now for president is between fascists and a reformed anti-lgbt bigot who remains friends with some of those fascists, seeing their anti-women, anti-trans, anti-lgbt positions as “disagreement.” I feel like we can do better.