• ∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its]
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    1 year ago

    as long as elections are winner-take-all first-past-the-post

    … Then… make them not be? “But we can’t use the current system to do that”… Then don’t do that? Throw the entire system away?

    • PaintedSnail@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      People have been trying to do that for decades now. It won’t suddenly happen between now and next election.

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        1 year ago

        Will it happen if the Dems get a landslide?

        (If your answer is yes, my next question is: based on what evidence and why now if, according to your logic, the point is to limit the Dems’ power and third parties can take power from the uniparty?)