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[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

...then you are a fake loser communist pedophile.

Well, no. Rather, you would simply an ignorant moron who doesn't understand the fucked up problems that are baked into any "first past the post" system for elections.

Do we need new political parties? Fuck yes we do! Can that happen within the current system. Fuck no!!! You think the ~~elites~~ parasites of any era in history were not disgusting sociopathic fuckwits?? Of course not. The system is working exactly as they fucking intended - to only ever give the unwashed masses the illusion of choice, but never the real thing.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

you would simply an ignorant moron who doesn’t understand the fucked up problems that are baked into any “first past the post” system

Idk if I'd call someone who hasn't mastered the electoral math of various esoteric voting systems a "moron".

The system is working exactly as they fucking intended

Really depends on who you ask. You'd be hard pressed to convince a bunch of 2016 mega-donors that the optimal result of the season was a Donald Trump presidency. That's certainly not where all the big money went during the primaries.

FPTP doesn't play well with gerrymandering or hyper-partisanism. If your elections are decided by the primary, and your primary is closed or otherwise stacked to favor the most ideologically pure candidates, you end up with an elected bureaucracy that looks like a fun house mirror reflection of the base.

Ask Jeb Bush if this is the outcome he intended ten years ago. Ask Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain. Politics is way off the target drawn by the neocons back in 2000.

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