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> It allows you to give more support to your preferred outcome. Probably unpopular to say here but...distracting nonsense. The preferred outcome? Let's start
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
> It allows you to give more support to your preferred outcome.
Probably unpopular to say here but...distracting nonsense.
The preferred outcome?
Let's start with an end to thumb on the scale gerrymandering.
Then how compaigns are financed, and post-term compensation.
Congress is effectively allowed to practice insider trading.
A Fourth Estate that lacks substance to the point of undermining democracy.
The Media's shameless commitment to a two party system. A commitment so polarized that divisiveness is a natural and expected byproduct.
That two party system, effectively a cartel, corners the mrket and intentionally limits choice. They get their preferred outcome. Voters get the illusion of impact.
Finally, let's not forget the excessive amount of tax dollars that finances The MIC.
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoMany of those problems stem from our adoption of a shitty voting system that entrenches the existing parties. A different voting system could allow for making choices that arent possible in the existing winner-takes-all model