Have higher standards, demand to have real options in the voting booth.
Electoral reform is not just for leftists looking for their first taste of representation in government. Across the political spectrum, we all deserve to have a real choice on how to best run this country.
Give republicans the chance to get off this stupid fucking circus carousel by letting them vote outside the two party system with no risk of a spoiler effect. The cracks are showing, set these people free from this walking corpse of a political party. Us too, thanks.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
I had a guy in my Discord following some insane moon logic about how ranked choice voting has some concerns because people could “tactically put their preferred option second to game the system”. He tried about five times and still could not convince us that water is dry.
It’s time to remind Congress that they work for the people
They do? Like I get that’s the pretext for why we remain their subjects, but do we really believe they will ever work for us? The only people I remember them ever “working for” are white landowners.
Then maybe buy some land and paint yourself white. Problem solved, just think outside the box
I feel like we are already deep deep underground.
These are people who have avoided conflict their entire lives and laughed at people defending themselves. Now they want to wake up today as if they can make up for decades of neglecting these key parts of life that actually make them a threat to anyone. The boycotts are a nice touch. Good to see people organize effectively for a change. But the usual heads will distract and convince people to protest burning any energy into that and burn out any momentum
The best option is proportional representation, anything else is just a bandaid on a broken system
Time to rethink the reapportionment act of (checks notes) 1929.
Sidenote: I didn’t really need to check my notes, but it added a dramatic flair for the 96 year old establishment of the number of representatives.
If only ~
If people are interested in trying to make a difference on this front, you can. I’m working with a group of people to enact ranked choice voting in our city. If you can get it passed at a local level, that’ll pave the way for familiarity with higher levels of government down the line.
Some states are pretty authoritarian and stop cities from doing anything good. Some states have banned rank-choice voting. But yeah, where this is possible, it’s definitely a path forward.
Care to tell us how we can make a difference?
Nor the corporations
evidence suggests otherwise.
They take an oath to their political party … technically treason
Hard to call it treason when you’re just paying fealty to the king.
At some point, Americans do need to recognize that they aren’t the ones in charge and what they’re talking about is rebellion rather than some kind of restoration.
