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Kamala Harris’s running mate urges popular vote system but campaign says issue is not part of Democrats’ agenda

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe we can all move to one of these fun states for a month so we can count as a full human being and not as a fraction of one just because we live in a urban area? Plus fuck the stupid fucking electoral college. I got a really good way to not fuck around. It's called counting. They teach that shit in grade school. Here's how it works, 1 is for 1, 2 is for 2 things, and so on. Eventually let's say you counted 20 electoral votes... okay then you get 20 electoral votes. No need to have some bag of retards who will supposedly account for 20 votes but then they change their minds at the last moment due to a large sum of money given to them accidentally. Don't need that shit if all they do is dilute our voice. We can do that on our own.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm willing to switch to an electoral trial by bake off.

Here is the thing that scares me. If Republicans make every election cycle this shitty and horrible to witness over and over again I'm going to be so fucking sick of elections in less than a decade.

This exercise of over and over again deteriorating the experience of elections will wear down a part of the populace into saying "FINE! Fuck elections! Go get a king so that I don't have to listen to hateful bilious invective for 9 months out of the year."

I can't be the only one in fear of that type of fatigue to fascism.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

This could actually open up the space for third parties. Just need to remove winner-takes-all.

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