The current two parties in your amazing country don't want it, therefore it will never happen

Alaska has ranked choice voting. But the viable independent is in Nebraska and the dsa candidates are in new York, Colorado, and Michigan. Minnesota has had farmer-labor candidates since ever, but if you don't live in Minnesotta, we just call them democrats.

We do need ranked choice voting. But it will not destroy the two party system.

Keep pushing on that, bub and we'll just get rid of voting 😠

Their job was to defend the white empire's intrests. Democracy was never a value of theirs

Multiple groups can be blamed. The DNC deserves more blame than anyone who refused to vote, but all the people saying "if you vote for Kamala, you love genocide" deserve some blame too, because anyone with a brain knew that a lot more people were going to get hurt under Trump.

Wonder who they'll run in 2028. If there's an election in 2028.

I'd say it's the party in power is actually doing it.

Add some realpolitik:

The GOP largely controls the messaging, due to owning the majority of media, as well as being more likely to have degrees in communications and sales, while Democratic candidates tend to have degrees in hard sciences.

The very moment the DNC did anything to hinder the genocide, every news stations would have a picture of local and national Democratic candidates with photoshopped Hitler mustaches.

Way too many people in the fediverse don't even know what the primaries are.

Lots of states won't let you vote in primaries unless you declare a party. We should start the messaging there. Declare a party, if only temporary, to vote for who you think is best during the first go around. Treat it as first past the post.

LOL. Lucy already pulled that football TWICE. The first time they rat fucked Bernie. The second time they didn't even have primaries. You have got to be fucking insane to be saying "voting in primaries is our chance for change". Are you fucking daft?

DEJA VU

Quisling is the typical term, i would argue for "democrat" but they're Nazis too, so not so much collaborator about them.

I prefer to call it the War of Terror, since it's basically Americans enacting revenge for 9/11 on random Muslims

Remember the ratchet system. Republicans make things worse. Dems make sure they never get better.

Oh OK, easy choice then?

This is the way. As a voter it often feels like your vote doesnt matter. But the thing is focus on local elections. Vote in every election your allowed. Especially those off season elections have low turnout, and your vote matters much more. This is how you get demsoc candidates into positions of influence who can work their way up.

The republican party is full on fasc. No matter where you are dont vote for them. Make the red states have to cheat so obviously that the courts have to get involved. Swing states vote blue, but if you were voting in the local elections, and primaries theres a good chance your blue candidate isnt a centrist. If your in a solid blue state vote for the third party to show the centrist dems that you dont want a centrist, and that their hold is precarious. If youre lucky to have a leftist candidate on the ballot in a blue state vote for them.

This is the best way to tell the party how to win. They will ignore you, and they will fight you. But if their base votes hard left consistently they have to listen, or they lose to leftists.

Not to mention all of those flags are also on the track of the democratic party. People like OP just don't care when it's their team doing it - Probably because it gets less play in the media.

More importantly, when someone proves that they're willing to trade human lives for the sake of power, why wouldn't you assume they will make the same trade for yours? When someone tells you they're a snake, believe them.

And a voter who didnt pull a lever.

The Climate Accords were a pointless do-nothing treaty with nothing to make any country uphold its' obligations. Signing it or not meant nothing and means nothing. While being signatories the US under the democrats never even approached upholding the accords. After Biden got elected he handed out fracking contracts like nobodys' business, so it pretty clearly did not matter to him or the party. There is so far only one country slated to reach the goals set by the accords and you're going to cry foul at what country that is.

edit: You can downvote the comment all you want, it does not make it less true. The Climate Accords has no provisions to make signatories follow it, the US has never come close to begin to approaching the goals set by the accord, Biden did hand out a bunch of new fracking contracts, and there is only one country so far that is expected to hit the goals set by the accords. Have you actually read the Paris Agreement?

And deportations, police state, climate, womens' rights, queer rights, militarism, warmongering, and so on...