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I am so so divided on if I should vote for biden or not. I wanna vote third party to at least do something or should I just stay home and protest and advocate where I can? Thoughts?

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[โ€“] hersh@literature.cafe 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. The time to push for third parties is every day except presidential election day. That's just the reality of the system right now.

Change doesn't begin at the top. It begins at the bottom. Many state and local elections across the US already use ranked choice voting, which is the bare minimum we would need to have more than 2 viable candidates in the presidential election. We need to push for ranked choice voting (or something better; it's not the be-all-end-all of voting systems!) in federal elections as well.

We have a generation of voters now who are literally too young to remember the 2000 election. If you're one of them, I urge you to look it up. I heard the same song back then. Look back and tell me if they were right or wrong, if you really believe that Gore would have been the same as Bush.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah! Unfortunately there's currently a law blocking anything better than RCV to be used for Congress.