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There have been a ton of states passing laws, starting in 2022 but really hitting stride in 2024/2025, where the Republican party has pushed laws or changes to

by esseph 1y ago

There have been a ton of states passing laws, starting in 2022 but really hitting stride in 2024/2025, where the Republican party has pushed laws or changes to state constitutions to prevent Ranked Choice Voting. Example, in Missouri there was a ballot initiative called Amendment 7. The first part of the Amendment was to enshrine banning non-citizens from voting. I want to be clear, this was already against state law. This didn't change anything. The second part of Amendment 7 was to ban ranked choice voting and require a plurality. That was the REAL intent of the Amendment. People got duped, badly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...

AnthonyMouse 1y ago
Ranked-choice voting sucks anyway. It's nominally better than first past the post, but only because FPTP is so broken that it can still be the loser in a competition between bad voting systems. Use a cardinal voting system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated_voting And framing this as a partisan issue is how you lose. Changes to the voting system that allow multiple parties aren't going to cause Democrats to win more seats in Missouri. Missouri is red regardless of which voting system you use. But it will cause Republicans to lose seats, to libertarians or some other right-leaning third party running candidates there. Which is perfectly to the advantage of the right-leaning voters there, because it better represents their interests. It's not to the advantage of the incumbent party insiders, who then trick people with crooked amendments like that. But if you pin that generically on "Republicans", implying a contrast with Democrats and need for all right-leaning people to line up against you, you're not going to win in Missouri. You have to pin it specifically where it belongs, on the fat cats trying to sustain their privileged position as a one-party monopoly in the state at the expense of all voters.
- esseph 1y ago
  Not one of these laws were put forth or passed by anyone other than Republicans in any of these states, and there is more pending legislation in other states before the end of the year. If it makes noises like a duck, looks like a duck, does duck things, it's a duck! I'm not running for office, just applying proper attribution! The "game" is not worth playing, especially now. Time to bail. Sucks. (Reminder that there are far more registered independents than any political party affiliation.)
  - AnthonyMouse 1y ago
    You can play the same game and call them "Americans" or "adults" or "politicians" but the reason you want to call them Republicans is that you're stuck in a partisan frame. If you need majority support in a state where Republican candidates get 60-70% of the vote then you need to get some "Republicans" on your side, which in turn means you need to distinguish between the ones who are your enemies and the ones who could be your friends.
    - esseph 1y ago
      Getting visas, not worth it. Won't be fixed in my lifetime, my children's lifetimes, my grandchildren's lifetimes. Something something best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, second best time is today, etc.
      - AnthonyMouse 1y ago
        That seems more like abandoning a place because it's currently full of weeds than planting a tree.
        esseph 1y ago
        Faster we go, the faster the children can integrate. Everything has its season.

by esseph 1y ago

AnthonyMouse 1y ago

Ranked-choice voting sucks anyway. It's nominally better than first past the post, but only because FPTP is so broken that it can still be the loser in a competition between bad voting systems. Use a cardinal voting system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated_voting And framing this as a partisan issue is how you lose. Changes to the voting system that allow multiple parties aren't going to cause Democrats to win more seats in Missouri. Missouri is red regardless of which voting system you use. But it will cause Republicans to lose seats, to libertarians or some other right-leaning third party running candidates there. Which is perfectly to the advantage of the right-leaning voters there, because it better represents their interests. It's not to the advantage of the incumbent party insiders, who then trick people with crooked amendments like that. But if you pin that generically on "Republicans", implying a contrast with Democrats and need for all right-leaning people to line up against you, you're not going to win in Missouri. You have to pin it specifically where it belongs, on the fat cats trying to sustain their privileged position as a one-party monopoly in the state at the expense of all voters.

esseph 1y ago
Not one of these laws were put forth or passed by anyone other than Republicans in any of these states, and there is more pending legislation in other states before the end of the year. If it makes noises like a duck, looks like a duck, does duck things, it's a duck! I'm not running for office, just applying proper attribution! The "game" is not worth playing, especially now. Time to bail. Sucks. (Reminder that there are far more registered independents than any political party affiliation.)
- AnthonyMouse 1y ago
  You can play the same game and call them "Americans" or "adults" or "politicians" but the reason you want to call them Republicans is that you're stuck in a partisan frame. If you need majority support in a state where Republican candidates get 60-70% of the vote then you need to get some "Republicans" on your side, which in turn means you need to distinguish between the ones who are your enemies and the ones who could be your friends.
  - esseph 1y ago
    Getting visas, not worth it. Won't be fixed in my lifetime, my children's lifetimes, my grandchildren's lifetimes. Something something best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, second best time is today, etc.
    - AnthonyMouse 1y ago
      That seems more like abandoning a place because it's currently full of weeds than planting a tree.
      - esseph 1y ago
        Faster we go, the faster the children can integrate. Everything has its season.