In his first interview since he dropped out of the race, the president says he is concerned about the transfer of power.

US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.

"[Trump] means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’.”

Mr Trump’s comment that it would “be a bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.

The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trump’s political opponents and others had been “viciously” misquoting him.

    • BigBoiBarry@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Nope, it works great here in Australia.

      FPTP is the worst system, and couple that with a system like the electoral collage and you have a system designed to make as few voices heard as possible.

    • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Ranked choice is just another way for people to game the system. I wish people understood this.

      Vote for the candidate you want, and then put the moderate as your second choice, shuffle them all together and oh look the moderate got the nom, but has to campaign in such a way as to please the democratic plurality of a multi party system.

      How many “crazy people” have been put forth as the Canadian Conservative Party candidate? As the general elections went in 2021, one of the most contentious in recent history, it looked like there was a plurality there. The outcome, and current scandals not withstanding within the Canadian governemnt, there aren’t assassination attempts creating articles from reputable sources giving serious credence to civil war.

      https://theconversation.com/one-inch-from-a-potential-civil-war-near-miss-in-trump-shooting-is-also-a-close-call-for-american-democracy-234628.

      Seems like a two party system might create some tribalism there, let’s look back at the Canadian Parliament, with a lot of different parties in the parliament compromising and doing politics. Looks like a lot of pluralism there.

      https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes

      Now let’s take a look at what the US Congress has been up to recently

      https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes

      Weird, outside of a universal vote to go on vacation, I don’t really see a plurality there. Mostly along a two party line.

      I wonder how we got there? I bet someone smarter than I has thought of this.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law

      Oh they did.

      Moving back to the threat of political violence, which is a much larger conversation than ranked choice voting. Could a two party system contribute to that? Could other countries with a binary politcal system face the same issues?

      https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/rising-tide-political-violence

      Huh could the very nature of a two party system, encourage political tribalism and disincentivize political collobaration?

      https://voices.uchicago.edu/dangerousthoughts/2016/05/14/political-tribalism-and-identity-politics/

      https://www.power3point0.org/2019/01/15/conformation-bias-political-tribalism-as-a-driver-of-disinformation/

      What does the future of the US want?

      https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/as-partisan-hostility-grows-signs-of-frustration-with-the-two-party-system/

      Huh, thank goodness we don’t have to deal with those pesky crazies in the Canadian Conservative Party ranked primaries.

      Ranked choice is just another way for people to game the system. I wish people understood this.

        • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
          101·
          3 months ago

          Do you know how Ranked Choice works? I explained it in a sentence. You keep agreeing with my points. The Moderate wins and has to take the 4/5ths into consideration. What you’re describing with your pool of poison is a problem with the conservative party and not with ranked choice voting. You can happily look at the voting turn out in Australia, and Australian exit polls to directly refute your point of poison.

          Whatboutism? You didn’t even read my post. I’m saying that a First Past the Post voting leads to tribalism that can lead to political extremism and violence. Which is clearly illustrated in every research paper, article, and government report I shared with you.

          You’ve responded with an opinion, and your opinion of one minor part of a much larger Canadian political system. Again.

          More choice breeds better results for a larger portion of the population. The fact that our extremism here in America cannot even take serious root in Canada is a great point to the benefits of a pluralistic government. But sure. Whataboutism .Yeah.

            • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
              5·
              3 months ago

              The Balkanization of the Republican Party is driven by political tribalism. I don’t think you have a very strong grasp on political theory or how absolutely fucked we are down here.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization

              I’m not the person who said

              Nope, it works great here in Australia.

              That was @BigBoyBarry

              Look at my comment history, I was born in America and have lived here all my life. I’ve voted in every primary I qualify to vote in and every presidential election since I turned 18.

              You might want to read the usernames of the people you’re replying to.

                • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
                  51·
                  3 months ago

                  Um, where do you know in Western Politics that there’s more than one winner in an election?