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[–]FormosaOolong 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Agree with your entire rant. The whole thing is a disgrace. They are duct taping Biden to a chair and letting him spurt garbled nonsense so that he can choose $hillary as his "vice president" and bring the blue sheep to orgasm.

I say we immediately start creating a campaign to adopt state-by-state ranked-choice-voting--thereby eliminating this fake two party monopoly. Then we create some kind of money-proof nonpartisan app or what have you by which all people can learn easy-to-understand plain facts about every single candidate for every single election and where they stand on every single issue. The app can also remind people when local elections are coming up, where to vote, and who is standing for election.

This would be a place to start cutting out the rot. There is so much more to do but this would be a good start.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. Agreed. We need a system that allows for more than 2 real party options, and then we need voting registration to be automatic or extremely easy. And a voting holiday from work when it's time to vote. And enough voting machines that no one has to wait 2 hours in line. And there is a paper trail that can be re-counted if the votes are digitally manipulated.

If we had all that, we might have a chance at having a functional representative democracy. But it's not like the people who run our current legal system and election system are going to allow those changes... it would have to be done by state-based constitutional referendums pushed to the federal level, or by some other means.

[–]FormosaOolong 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

it would have to be done by state-based constitutional referendums pushed to the federal level

Yep, this is how it will likely have to go. Let's start pushing our states to enact ranked choice like yesterday.

[–]whereswhat 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Well put. Our elections are so corrupt it's mind boggling.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

BERNIE 2024!!!

/s

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

He is probably a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film) till then. Like Lenin actually is, even though he was an asshat.