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That's standard behavior. The US is more plutocracy than democracy at this point. You can help choose the brand of oligarchy that runs the United States but yo
by pydry 3y ago
That's standard behavior. The US is more plutocracy than democracy at this point.
You can help choose the brand of oligarchy that runs the United States but you can't vote against it.
- klyrs 3y agoTechnically, you can vote for anybody you like, including yourself or Santa Claus. But no, LaRouche was never going to make it.
- porphyra 3y agoVoting for one of two parties compresses the will of the people to a single bit.
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoEven worse: individual states are on a campaign (nationally) to ban ranked-choice voting [1] among their constituencies (e.g. Tennessee recently did so, to prevent a Memphis-area jurisdiction from implementing fairer voting). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
- thfuran 3y agoThat should be treason.