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Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be. (lemmy.world)
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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 241 points 2 months ago

Third parties are mathematically impossible until we ditch first past the post voting:

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

We need our vote to be a list, not a checkbox.

[-] DavidDoesLemmy@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 2 months ago

Who's we?

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The working class I guess? Certainly no one with power.

[-] DavidDoesLemmy@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Americans. "We" already have preferential voting.

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