Certainly in the long term FPTP needs to go, along with the Electoral College, the practice of Gerrymandering, the Democrats ridiculous system of Super Delegates, and the cap on the number of representatives in the House. None of which is to mention the overturn of Citizen's United, the long overdue process of campaign finance reform, reigning in the power of lobbyists, breaking up the conglomerates that have formed in the wake of the Regan era kneecapping of the FTC and a ban on Congressional trading of stocks and securities. While we quibble about that though the far right have managed to turn their culture war into a full blown Crusade complete with a neo-geshtapo with a larger budget than the militaries of several countries, and before you've managed to agree on a root cause for the decay of the institutional protections we used to take for granted a bunch of masked fascists have thrown you in a camp. Heart disease isn't a huge concern when the same patent is bleeding out from a gunshot wound. The cause of this clusterfuck is bigger than one election, or one bloc of voters, it's a complex interplay of multiple contradictions and flaws in the foundation of the American State dating back centuries. Yes, it is important to repair the damage, to improve and learn from our failures but that does not matter in the immediate term. The left will not get the chance to reform and repair once a full blown purge of dissidents and thought criminals is being carried out, we're six months to a year away from camps for Citizens critical of the regime, and two to three years out from outright death camps. We are in deep shit, anyone in the US' borders or sphere of direct influence is in deep shit. People who voted third party or abstained absolutely fucked up. I can't stress enough how much that no longer matters as fascist tyrants continue to tighten the noose
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