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Everyone needs to realize that these evil deeds are being made possible by the two party political system that divides the people so they fight amongst themselv

Everyone needs to realize that these evil deeds are being made possible by the two party political system that divides the people so they fight amongst themselves. We need ranked choice voting everywhere. If the government was captured and properly enforced antitrust measures, there would be many alternatives to prevent the corporate fascism we’re seeing everywhere today.

jfengel 4y ago
I believe that the two party system reflects, rather than creates, the division. If so, I don't think ranked choice really helps. In the end, the fundamental division is the vote. There is one winner, and everybody else loses. I don't know any voting system that gets around that core issue. If you want things done your way, you need to get 51% of the people to agree with you. That means making allies and trading votes. You can push around exactly what mechanism you use to make the allies and enforce your commitments to each other, but in the end there's a vote. Somebody wins; everyone else loses. That is, I believe, the real source of the division. Some people want something (same-sex marriages, access to handguns, abortions) and other people very much want them not to have it. It would be great if we could compromise on that, but votes are the opposite of compromise, no matter how you arrange it. Votes are fundamentally divisive.
than3 4y ago
If you think its because of the two-party system you need to do more research. I agree ranked choice is something that needs to happen, but it won't change the fundamental problem which is you have a majority of people who are easily swayed by false information who have been indoctrinated for most of their lives, who wouldn't know the truth if it bit them, and then you have intelligent rational thinkers in the slight minority, and their opposition split 1/3rd down the entire way and the politicians only listen to the majority of voices that actually show up in online/news. They have done nothing to address the 1 person might equal 100,000 bot accounts as they did in the FCC debacle that repealed net neutrality, nor punish those who blatantly did that. Its despicable and evil beyond measure, that was one time where inaction constituted violating oaths they swore, but that's the world we live in because the actions taken to prevent it weren't taken at a time it would have mattered because they were all friends as Chappelle says. Its a good deal. I've been reading Thomas Paine's writings recently on Common Sense, its suprising how the common issues today almost mirror many of the problem issues of his time.

jfengel 4y ago

I believe that the two party system reflects, rather than creates, the division. If so, I don't think ranked choice really helps. In the end, the fundamental division is the vote. There is one winner, and everybody else loses. I don't know any voting system that gets around that core issue. If you want things done your way, you need to get 51% of the people to agree with you. That means making allies and trading votes. You can push around exactly what mechanism you use to make the allies and enforce your commitments to each other, but in the end there's a vote. Somebody wins; everyone else loses. That is, I believe, the real source of the division. Some people want something (same-sex marriages, access to handguns, abortions) and other people very much want them not to have it. It would be great if we could compromise on that, but votes are the opposite of compromise, no matter how you arrange it. Votes are fundamentally divisive.

than3 4y ago

If you think its because of the two-party system you need to do more research. I agree ranked choice is something that needs to happen, but it won't change the fundamental problem which is you have a majority of people who are easily swayed by false information who have been indoctrinated for most of their lives, who wouldn't know the truth if it bit them, and then you have intelligent rational thinkers in the slight minority, and their opposition split 1/3rd down the entire way and the politicians only listen to the majority of voices that actually show up in online/news. They have done nothing to address the 1 person might equal 100,000 bot accounts as they did in the FCC debacle that repealed net neutrality, nor punish those who blatantly did that. Its despicable and evil beyond measure, that was one time where inaction constituted violating oaths they swore, but that's the world we live in because the actions taken to prevent it weren't taken at a time it would have mattered because they were all friends as Chappelle says. Its a good deal. I've been reading Thomas Paine's writings recently on Common Sense, its suprising how the common issues today almost mirror many of the problem issues of his time.