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I'm a trans person and condemn anyone who won't vote to stop a fascist dictator that wants me dead from obtaining the nuclear codes
When can we start voting for someone good instead of merely less bad? How do we get to that point?
Petition for an end to FPTP voting. Ranked choice will be the death of the Republican party.
See: improvements in Alaska (of all places) for details
I would think it would take 4 back to back presidential election wins by the Democratic party. Maybe 3 if it included wipeouts of Republicans in Congress and at the state level. No party can survive being out of power for that long without changing and shifting towards were voters are and that leaves the Democrats room to shift left to solidify that flank.
We've already had 1. We're on the cusp of a possible second. That means we could be 4 years from a complete collapse of the Republican party, if people were actually serious about creating a real leftist movement in this country. That's because winning is how you affect change. A loss just tells politicians that they need to be more like the winner.
The California model. Render Republicans impotent, then you can start enacting real positive changes.
That's a good start, I think. The tricky bit is I think you need thirty years straight of good decisions so that the next generation is fully done "correctly". Will be harder to abuse the system after that.
"Be more like the winner" is interesting. Trump is a populist and he was more worried about Bernie than Clinton.
Gotta get rid of First Past the Post voting. And increase the size of the House. Even then, there can be only one President, so he necessarily won't be someone you perfectly agree with, he will represent the broader coalition that your party is part of in government. But I think that's as close as we could get in a Democracy.
This is a question for democracies in general. I don't think any country has solved this yet, so to speak
i've been trying to find someone who's life had been impacted by biden's support of don't-ask-don't-tell; defense-of-marriage-act; executive-order-10450; ice; straight-marriage-only-in-2006 to ask if they still support him; but it seems that only the young who are ignorant of his past; those who "avoid politics"; and those that were never affected universally support him.
if you're not one of these three groups; i'd like to hear your thoughts on why he switched to pro-lgbt: do you think it's because it was more politically advantageous of him? did he hate lgbt in the past because it acceptable and, if so, if it were still acceptable would he continue to hate lgbt?
i ask because my life has been thoroughly fucked by each one of these policies and it took A LOT of effort to rebuild my life so it's obvious that i wouldn't support him; but i'm wondering if there's anyone else out there whose life has also been thoroughly fucked by these policies, but still support him somehow.
I'm only voting for him because the other option and inaction are death sentences. I don't like the guy at all and would vote for someone else given the option.
That said, for all his centrist tendencies he does seem to occasionally cave in to pressure. It just takes time.
That moment when doing what your constituents want you to do is "caving to pressure" ugh
This is a Democracy. Biden was elected to enact the will of the people. If all of a sudden America became fascinated with the color yellow, I would expect him to start wearing yellow pins. If the American people change their minds, our elected leaders should also change their minds, because they work for us.
i don't know about you; but i've been voting for the "lesser evil" for 40 years now and there's never been anything other than voting for the "lesser evil" each time.
i've started to believe that our circumstances are engineered so that we will only continue to get the "lesser evil" guaranteeing that we will eventually get the greater evil anyways and biden doesn't have another 25 years to cave in to pressure.
Petition for an end to FPTP voting if you want to see change.