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This is the only issue worth campaigning on. Fuck everyone for not realizing it. We will never get this system under control if it continues to misrepresent what the majority wants. There is no amount of bargaining and compromise that will ever bring forth the change we need to stop global climate change. Ranked choice - for its simplicity. Star - for its utility. Etc. Etc. Make the debate strictly about how we will reform voting and push everything else to the end of the list.

BTW, I’m not asking politicians to do this. I’m ask you, the people, if you will make your voice heard and enshrine it with a government that truly represents you.

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This is the only issue worth campaigning on.

You’re not going to like the people campaigning on it, though.

Spoilers: It’s the Spoiler Candidates

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You’re not going to like the people campaigning on it, though.

Spoilers: It’s the Spoiler Candidates

…because the Dems and GOP benefit from the current system. Any move away from FPTP harms them, so they aren’t going to support it and any other party is a “spoiler candidate” because of how FPTP works.

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I respectfully disagree. Any attempt to frame both parties as the same is a big fat down vote from me. You sound insightful and intelligent though.

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Any move away from FPTP harms them, so they aren’t going to support it

Sure. But if you don’t vote for the Democrats then you are implicitly supporting fascism and that will mean an end to all forms of democracy (or so I’ve been told).

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Every candidate should be campaigning on it. Not until the Republicans are brazenly defending the broken system, or alternatively join the move for reformation because they think they can capitalize on it, is the country moving in the right direction.

When the pollsters call you your answer to every question should be, “I don’t care we need vote reform.”

When the media focus groups you,“I don’t care we need vote reform.”

When the NAZIs try to bait you, “I don’t care we need vote reform.”

I know, this isn’t a fully fleshed out strategy but it is a stance that will elevate the discussion.

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Tough luck, if you want to ask the people and want to have a say in national discourse, you have to buy a media outlet like billionaires do.

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Keep carrying water for them.

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Defeatism

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