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[–] Th3BFG@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (36 children)

Blindly supporting the Two-Party System, and bullying those who don't, is anti-American. It will only lead to fascism.

EDIT - @chaogomu provided quality information on how to actually work with US voting and how to make a difference. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and https://equal.vote

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell the incrementalist argument goes like this:

  1. The two-party system is destroying the country.
  2. But one of the two parties will destroy democracy imminently, so we have to vote for the lesser evil this time, and then,
  3. ...
[–] Statfish@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago
  1. The two-party system is destroying the country.
  2. Resoundly reject the party that is actively pushing for a weird christofascist state. <-- the us electorate has not yet done this!
  3. Actively push for election reform <-- AK, AZ, CO, DC, ID, MT, NV, OR, and SD will all have ballet initiatives this November regarding election reform. VOTE!
  4. Get involved with organizations that are moving to further the causes you care about, and get active in politics.

Voting for president is the smallest part of civic participation, not the end-all-be-all

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