Pretty sure the Leftist there would agree
Just give me someone to vote for who is normal
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mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where shitpost?
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose. In these times people instinctively, correctly, lash out at those who have the most.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Way too much credit is being given to both sides of this. Everybody is just cheering for one team or another with their votes. Whatever they say aloud doesn’t really matter because the result is handing over any choice or real practical discourse to a handful of people who are entirely at the mercy of their political parties and the party sponsors.
Choosing a lesser evil is always better than doing nothing but we really need more than two choices at this point. The massive PAC funding has to go and campaigns really need to have extremely strict regulation that is thus far unprecedented imo. We also truly need national ranked choice voting, strict term limits for all elected positions and honestly, age limits too.
Would be nice if we had more popular vote based levers as well to force certain policies or decisions, but the tyranny of the majority has some challenges too. Maybe congress and the courts should be expanded so that more people are involved in the representation of a country that had ~26 senators and ~65 representatives in 1791 when we only had around 4 million americans. We are close to 350 million people now which is 87.5x more than then, so shouldn’t the have closer to ~2275 senators and ~5688 representatives? Would be a hell of a lot harder to keep this many people in lockstep with “loyal” party line voting like there is today in our completely fucked system especially with term limits that mean they don’t have to worry about re-election (maybe it should be one term only, ever. Longer duration but the citizens of a district should be able to vote to trigger a new election cycle for what’s remaining in a term.)
Oh and districts at this point probably shouldn’t be based on drawn voting maps. Everybody’s social security number should go into a pool and be randomly assigned to a district in every state that corresponds to the amount of representatives they have. The voting places could be the same local ones and the tallies could still be done, we’d just need a number of voting forms in each voting location that corresponds to each district based on the amount of voters. They could even print these out on demand on the day of to avoid waste if we want to avoid a digital solution.
anywho, feel free to dunk on all of it. These words don’t even matter, this will never happen. The ones in power run the show and do not want to give up their power.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not much to disagree with here. I like the thought of future governments that are written to resist corruption. I think you raise several good ways to do this. I think ultimately electing by popular vote has to go away in favor of a system that randomly elects from a qualified pool with term and age limits.
A government has to be designed to resist corruption instead of embracing it.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
When does the right think corrupt government is the problem?
They’re too busy blaming everything on whatever that corrupt government tells them to.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
good luck finding any
Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This leftist doesn’t want capitalism or government.
dustyvagina@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Almost like they intentionally keep us divided
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They don’t really have to try anymore. Anyone who eats propaganda of one side wants nothing to do with the other.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keep the masses busy with UFCs fights and fighting each other while getting away with raping babies. A playbook as old as history can remember.
InfernoWarrior@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah. True.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Find a local politician that is working class and normal, then support them.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That only fixes a tiny fraction of the problem.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
And yet next to no one even does this small step. There is no individual action that will magically fix it all.
guy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
So billionaires are the problem?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Extreme wealth disparity is the problem. When people can get vastly more rich than everyone else, to the point they can buy entire governments, the system turns from democratic to autocratic.
It’s been a recurring problem in the US for generations, especially since the temptation once a person is elected into federal office (or even high state office) is to forgo fixing the system in favor of getting rich from lobbyist bribes.