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You can vote for one of two near-identical parties but the vote will be decided by Facebook.
by cryptarch 9y ago
You can vote for one of two near-identical parties but the vote will be decided by Facebook.
- tradersam 9y agoSad but true for most Americans.
- nosuchthing 9y agoYou can exert some effort to solve the two party system by getting your state to implement ranked choice voting. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-voting.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-vo...
- sirlatrom 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo... "Although Arrow's theorem is a mathematical result, it is often expressed in a non-mathematical way with a statement such as no voting method is fair, every ranked voting method is flawed, or the only voting method that isn't flawed is a dictatorship."
- wtallis 9y agoThat theorem says that no voting system is perfect, for a certain definition of perfect. It does not say that all voting systems are equally bad.
- cryptarch 9y agoI'm Dutch, so no. Discourse is the only tool I know I have here. The reason I'm invested in the U.S. political system is that it produces something resembling international jurisprudence ("if the U.S. is doing it, we should too!"), because it influences our policies through trade agreements and the U.N., and because many U.S. companies are very influential internationally. That, and Trump's climate policies affect every conscious being on Earth.
- flyingfences 9y agoThere will be resistance, though. Here in Maine we passed RCV via a referendum, but the legislature is still pushing back and trying to find ways to prevent the change from coming into effect.