• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago

    I want to point out that voting democrats in hasn’t been exactly helpful either. […] There are a LOT of problems with our current system. I just feel like continuing to elect the only two parties that got us here is a bad plan.

    as always, if you want this to be different in a way that isn’t going to throw everything to the hardest right politicians (who incidentally are making a full-court press to make child labor legal again) you’ll need to start with voting reform. i would encourage you to formally get involved with an organization like Fairvote to this end.

    • Didros@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      While I do agree that my doomer additude isn’t helpful, I don’t think anything can change. And I also don’t want to sacrifice my life to the cause. People who go against this system end up dead if they are lucky. I’m fine to just complain online.

      I think a third political party that simply ran on always voting no to anything other than clean budgets and debt ceiling hikes would 100% win in the minds of the people. But it wouldn’t take much for tge system to distort and twist even that incredibly basic platform.

      I don’t believe a third party will ever be allowed to become viable in this country. I hate it, but that won’t change it because there is too much “capital” in this for human lives to outweigh it. That is our countries values. Who am I to say that isn’t what the majority want?

      • JuBe@beehaw.orgM
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        1 year ago

        The reason third parties don’t succeed is because they are often vanity projects with little work done in the “off-season.” For example, the Green Party: sucks thousands of votes away during presidential elections, but is yet to have elected a single person to the House of Representatives.

        If you’re squeamish about supporting an individual candidate, at least get involved in voter protection efforts.