• LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip
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      … don’t you think a lot of Trump votes were defensive votes against Hilary/Harris? Telling people to vote against the worse candidate is morbid and devoid of hope.

      Elections should be restructured so people aren’t forced into 1-on-1 battles. People naturally have more diverse beliefs than a left/right spectrum. The current system was gamed into crisis. Time for an amendment

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        Voting “defensively for trump” is like setting your house on fire… defensively!

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        A MAGA Idiot voting for Trump “defensively” against 5 Trans Athletes and non existent people eating cats and dogs un Ohio, are not voting defensivrly, they are stupid and voting stupidly because god for they actually not accept blatant and obvious lies.

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        The system needs to be changed, absolutely.

        Do you think that is going be easier with a Democrat in charge or Trump? Given that Trump has already done everything possible to destroy what little voter rights Americans do have. And may not be done.

        At this point wouldn’t be surprised if he made up some bullshit excuse to cancel the fall elevations all together.

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        Aren’t you Butch Ware, the Green Party vice presidential nominee and candidate for governor of California, and therefore an American?

        Elsewhere in this thread, Gormadt told you to run for office. You said “I did”, and linked to a news story about Butch Ware messing up the paperwork to run for California governor. So it seemed like you were saying you’re Butch Ware, an American.

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        Pretty sure America is the most obvious place this would be referencing.

        It has to be a FPTP country, and it has to be a country with so few possible parties that the choices are bad or worse. Not to mention it has to be a country with free and fair elections.

        How many countries fit that bill?

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          16 hours ago

          Elections in the US are far removed from free and fair, especially now we’re past Louisiana v. Callais and SCOTUS can and will veto any efforts by Congress to reform them.

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            SCoTUS has neither a military nor a law enforcement arm. With enough political will there is nothing they can do to stop court reform.

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              Ellie Mystal pointed out that was a risk of civil war: If congress were to strip SCOTUS of jurisdiction (no longer decides what is Constitutional or not) and the court then responds by saying that law is unconstitutional, the blue states side with Congress while the red states side with the Court, and we have a crisis that cannot be resolved by institutional procedure.

              Personally, I’d like to see more of They’ve made their ruling, now let them enforce it. But as we recently saw with the Virginia redistricting referendum, their governor obeyed in advance.