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Simplistically, yes. Except that the whole US system is binary, and your vote is too - you get to vote either 1 or 0, with no more nuance than that. So techni

by beachy 1y ago

Simplistically, yes. Except that the whole US system is binary, and your vote is too - you get to vote either 1 or 0, with no more nuance than that. So technically yes, people voted for this, but also many were forced to because it came in a bundle which was the only way they could vote for their non-negotiables such as gun rights and abortion restrictions.

LadyCailin 1y ago
Completely agree, but I haven’t really heard much about anyone running on a platform of fixing the voting system. It’s fairly straightforward to at least improve, tons of countries have many different parties with all sorts of nuance. Having said that, Republicans as a whole got a large number of votes, and they’re all well known to be Trump bootlickers that twice failed to convict him after impeachment, so it really shouldn’t come as a shock that he’s doing bad stuff. There’s some point where Americans just have to take responsibility for their actions or inactions, and I think we’re well past that point.
- beachy 1y ago
  Maybe so, but from the outside voting as an American looks stifling. I wouldn't want to vote for either of the two parties, although both hold some positions that I agree with more than the other. Either of the two parties promoting voting reform would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. I don't know if America will ever be able to transition to proportional representation because of entrenched interests. But here in New Zealand it was having a trump-like character, Robert Muldoon, in control of our economy last century that led to MMP. Having a single deranged (and occasionally drunk) person micromanaging the economy, arbitrarily imposing tariffs and trading rules and imposing price controls and freezing wage rises made people realize that we wanted our king to be symbolic and not interfering with our freedoms.

by beachy 1y ago

LadyCailin 1y ago

Completely agree, but I haven’t really heard much about anyone running on a platform of fixing the voting system. It’s fairly straightforward to at least improve, tons of countries have many different parties with all sorts of nuance. Having said that, Republicans as a whole got a large number of votes, and they’re all well known to be Trump bootlickers that twice failed to convict him after impeachment, so it really shouldn’t come as a shock that he’s doing bad stuff. There’s some point where Americans just have to take responsibility for their actions or inactions, and I think we’re well past that point.

beachy 1y ago
Maybe so, but from the outside voting as an American looks stifling. I wouldn't want to vote for either of the two parties, although both hold some positions that I agree with more than the other. Either of the two parties promoting voting reform would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. I don't know if America will ever be able to transition to proportional representation because of entrenched interests. But here in New Zealand it was having a trump-like character, Robert Muldoon, in control of our economy last century that led to MMP. Having a single deranged (and occasionally drunk) person micromanaging the economy, arbitrarily imposing tariffs and trading rules and imposing price controls and freezing wage rises made people realize that we wanted our king to be symbolic and not interfering with our freedoms.