• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Well it’s simple, what are the Democrat voters going to do, vote 3rd party?

    They’re held hostage to the party, so the party has no need to reflect them, it just has to be less bad than the Republicans.

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      10 months ago

      Of everyone who claims no third party could win would actually coalesce around and vote for a third party candidate, the third party would win. Their children apparently aren’t suffering and starving enough, yet.

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        10 months ago

        That’s not true for the president. They are not picked by popular vote but the electoral college, and it’s “first to get half the Electoral College votes”, not who ever gets the most. It takes a literal majority, otherwise Congress or some other suits just get to pick.

        The US is absolutely not a democracy when it comes to 2/3rds of its government.

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          10 months ago

          Considering the Senate is just two assholes per state and the House would have over a 1,000 members if we had the same ratio as 1789 I’d expand that to all three branches.

          It’s not a legitimate government, but we all pretend it is. Especially the people with guns.

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      10 months ago

      what are the Democrat voters going to do, vote 3rd party?

      Sit on their hands like they did in 2016.

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        10 months ago

        Unless you’re in Nee Hampshire right?

        Or like we saw with Bernie, they’ll sabotage your campaign and rig the DNC.