Image description: An image macro with two panels. In the first a bunny labeled “BIDEN” is holding a clipboard while looking up to an older woman labeled “VOTER.” In the second panel, the bunny is saying “would you like to keep Trump out of the white house” and it becomes clear that the clipboard, which is obscured from the vision of the older woman, contains the to-do list for an evil plan
The game is rigged. First past the post forces this kind of devil's bargain, and if we ran an America simulation a thousand times you'd get bored of seeing it. Additionally, neither party's leaders will ever have any motive to accept an alternative voting system at the national level. Unless you're advocating accelerationism (itself a deeply unethical route), it makes sense to keep playing the rigged game for now while we build a dialogue about radical reforms.
Is accelerationism the belief that 'it has to get a lot worse first in order for it to get better'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism?wprov=sfla1
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