no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES
it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment
edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.
Union busting undermines the democratic co-determination in the company. However, for an American it is probably shocking that this does exist at all (at least in civilized countries). 😉
A policy that constricts the enfranchisement of the general public is anti-democratic.
If, every year, you introduce a set of laws that makes felons out of half your political opposition, you quickly create for yourself a one party monopoly.
“We believe in the one person, one vote system of elections that our country was founded upon,” Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown, the ballot measure’s sponsor, said in an interview.
Brown and other critics of ranked choice voting contend the system is confusing, and he said there are numerous instances in which voters didn’t end up ranking their choices.
real answer: republicans don’t win as much when rcv is in place.
I hate slogans like "one person, one vote" or "innocent until proven guilty" because so many people treat them as principles in themselves rather catchy names for principles that are much more nuanced than those names suggest. It doesn't matter how many "votes" a person has the ability to cast so long as everyone is given an equally opportunity to influence the outcome of an election.
Because with ranked choice people can vote for Jane the Socialist but also pencil in a secondary, begrudging vote for Joe Biden. They want lefties to split their vote. They want a vote for the Greens to be a loss for the Democrats. Ranked choice kind of negates that.
Can you guess which party that holds a tenuous grasp over their constituents via fear would not want them having the option of voting for other people that might more closely align with their ideals and morals?
I mean, technically it's both parties at this point, but Republicans know that RCV will be the absolute death of the current version of their party which has devolved into little more than a reactionary ultranationalist faction.
Why would they ban ranked choice? Oh right, because they'd absolutely never get elected if they couldn't cheat with the current gerrymandered hell they've built.
Imagine a candidate loyal to one of America’s enemies was voted in.
A candidate who won the state-weighted national popularity contest would only be "one of America's enemies" if the weighting was wildly off. Even then, Said candidate wouldn't be the enemy of all Americans, just enemy of the states with the underweight majority.
And if half of America hates the other half? Then every president is loyal to one of America's enemies.
SCOTUS nullifying literally all the progressive laws intended to protect the people.
How in the actual hell did we go from justices like Hugo Black who was a straight up KKK member but switched sides and became one of the most liberal judges in American history, to the likes of Brett Kavanaugh who spends his free time getting drunk
Nah, state laws get reversed all the time - not by the judiciary, but simply by the next legislature. Obviously definitely fight for RCV and fair representation tooth and nail, but there's no need to go full blackpilled. We're still in the running!
In FPTP, not really because voting third party can split the vote between multiple parties meaning that none of them get a relative majority of votes and their common opponent wins instead. The system encourages you to vote for the next closes party that is the most likely to get more votes (strategic voting). It entirely favours a 2 party dynamic
I love how so many Americans staunchly and aggressively proclaim none of these issues (or the multitude of others not listed) just simply don't exist.
Then after a quick google, may agree they exist but only "not in my backyard, therefore it doesn't really happen".
Then with some realization hopefully see it happens not only right where they live but the entire country. But that last part is rare.
And generally the best outcome is "well if you vote for my guy, everything will be solved". Ignoring the 99% of issues that the 2 main parties agree on but create too many profits for donors to ever be looked at.
Other countries would be called olagarchies when a few rich people get their interests catered to and everyone else is along for the rude. Other countries are called theocracies that offer a far greater actual religious freedom than the US and do not enact Christian/Catholic laws like abortion and 10 commandments in schools. I can keep going for hours. But those that get it, already got it. And those that don't, won't ever until they escape American propaganda.
RCV is the next carrot to keep idiots voting Democrat. The Bernie plan got exposed and Biden is not much lesser evil than Trump anymore. We have to give them a reason to be stupid enough to keep voting blue.
When RCV almost takes hold they will both sides a bullshit authoritarian move out of their ass and ban it.
Trump: "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” (Truth Social post, Dec. 3. 2022)
So what has Biden done that is "not much lesser evil" than trying to terminate the Constitution?
He's been sponsoring a genocide in Gaza for the last six months, just for starters. His federal agencies helped coordinate violent police crackdowns of peaceful student protests, from Columbia to UCLA.
He's continued Trump era immigration laws and even tightened them, resulting in the deaths of dozens of lawful asylum seekers in US custody and hundreds more in the wilderness along the US-Mexico border.
He continues to keep War Criminals like Elliot Abrams in his cabinet, and sponsors their efforts to inflict more coups and banana republics across Latin America.
He's accelerated climate change by approving record new oil leases on public land, in exchange for O&G kickbacks to his party.
He bailed out Silicon Valley and Signature Banks to the tune of billions in order to protect depositors who had explicitly sought to avoid the cost of FDIC insurance, and received more kick backs in kind.
He kept Louis DeJoy at the Post Office, giving Trump's man another four years to dismantle the largest non-military government employer.