but i swear by this point, we know.we are aware. the same point doesn’t need to be spammed every 3 comments. if it was as easy to overcome as copypasting the same four paragraphs every post, we’d have thrown off this oppression by now.
this wouldn’t be a problem if the spam wasn’t inserted into the most irrelevant of spaces. people are dying, their rights are being stripped. and yes, RCV would help this but politics is about working within the confines of current reality, not a hypothetical scenario where we fixed things 6 years ago.
just cool it with the spam. engage with each other as humans, not concepts to be dealt with.
Reminds of that recent video about the Palestinian genocide where he has to repeatedly affirm that he condemns Hamas: for any topic there are these go-to comments that feel obligatory to append to a post to get them over with
i think no? speaking as a non-expert i believe some local and state governments have RCV already implemented. and of course the electoral college is federal only. imo both should happen, but the order might not be altogether important.
The electoral college is a huge problem. Suppose a largish states introduces RCV and ends up electing third party in a presidential election. Now if neither candidate reaches enough electors, the election is tossed to Congress.
RCV is a great solution for state-level/local elections, but at the national level you will first want to change the system.
Technically we're a lot closer to that one at the moment. Well, not directly abolishing the Electoral College per se. I don't have the details handy at the moment because I'm on mobile and my phone keeps closing my Lemmy client when i try to tab out to do anything and I lose my comment.
But if you don't know about it, there's this thing called something like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Basically it's an agreement where states that have signed onto it pledge to give their Electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. It's set to take effect as soon as enough states sign on that they account for the 50%+1 electors to win the college. I'm sure I'm not going to get the number right but I wanna say last I knew they were like 20 something short?
Except in my version of this the darkest timeline; the masses will not understand anything other than FPTP as complexities scare them in to irrational fear
There are already places that use IRV in the US and there has never been a significant issue with this. IRV is certainly better than what we have, but for my money, I think STAR is the way to go, there's still issues with strategic voting in IRV with situations that make good-faith votes hurt the voter, but it's still a lot better than the circus we have now.
We are in this darkest timeline. I was speaking to an older family member who lives in Alaska where RCV exists and she kept saying that it wasn't a fair system because "they just change your vote to someone you didn't vote for."