A Boring Dystopia

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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You don't vote for people who don't represent you.

Our first past the post voting system is mathematically flawed to always result in a two party system through strategic voting.

People are not free to vote for who best represents them because they would let someone who represents them even less win the election.

While this spoiler effect is inherent in First Past The Post voting, there are other voting systems where there is no spoiler effect.

So here we are, chained in the trunk of the car these two legacy political parties drove off a cliff into a river.

And the Water rises.. take a deep breath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For that first part to work we must vote for better candidates at the lower level and stop voting for the media selected consensus candidate in primaries.

Otherwise we're just disengaging from the system and letting two people pass the presidency back and forth.