@bryandawsonusa.bsky.social

it sucks but it's true. voting is purely strategic. I just also want the people who are happy with a boring Dem to support switching to #RankedChoiceVoting and not tell those of us who are further left to ever STFU.

@maj

my local peeps discussed this last night. I think parliamentary systems are better than the current US system but we'd be better if we just added #RankedChoiceVoting. the two concerns being how hard it is to deal with a selfish entrenched governing class vs prevent the grabbing of power by charismatic idiot/assholes. ultimately it's about a better educated and informed public.

@NMBA

#RankedChoiceVoting would produce #ProportionalRepresentation in the legislature. The same voting system could choose the correct* winner in an election with just one winner, such as a head of state. So in that sense they're completely compatible.

*The result is correct if the winner is the candidate who would have beaten all the other candidates in a one-versus-one contest.

@old_hippie @pmonks

that's exactly what has to happen

#MAGA devoured the #GOP

now the #left must devour the #Democrats

only then can we get movement on things like #rankedChoiceVoting #rcv where we get viable third parties

with ranked choice and stable third parties we get to vote our conscience free and clear for once in this damn country

rather than this endless insipid need for strategy in #fptp voting, compromising to #centrist bullshit that saps the will and the passion

@paleofuture.bsky.social

we shouldn't have parties. #RankedChoiceVoting

@DemocracyMattersALot #lisamurkowski and #susancollins vote against trump all the time. Why? Because they were elected in states that have open primaries and #rankedchoicevoting. They are immune to the threat of well funded primary challenges from MAGA candidates because MAGA candidates would never win an open primary and ranked choice voting benefits candidates with broad appeal. They are free to speak up for the people they actually represent.

@viking @black6

yet somehow it happens IRL. compromises aren't happening in politics today because most districts are gerrymandered hard to one party or the other. meaning if you win your primary, you're guaranteed to be in office. so playing hard to the base is what matters. compromise or recognizing the other side has some good arguments will be weaponized against you by other people in your party. we need voters who care about getting something over nothing. and #RankedChoiceVoting

@Lana @chelivan

@Schneems
hard to count...didn’t turn up to the polls because “my vote doesn’t matter” #BlueStates #RedStates and #nationalpopularvote and #rankedchoicevoting

We know 89 million registered citizens didn't vote on Nov 2024
Harris 74.8 million __ Trump 77.2 million

@sonic81
#electoralcollege getting rid of it

Big waste campaigning #swingstates

@iam_sysop
#FoxNews ONLY news you get, those areas

AND #Sinclairbroadcastgroup #rightwing newspapers radio

@monk @Daojoan

Americans do not choose to have only two parties. Our PACs, media, and billionaires choose that for us. #CitizenUnited cements the fact that our choices are binary.

A few places (such as in Alaska) are allowing #RankedChoiceVoting as a path for other parties, but in the end (even there)... We are still dominated by the two parties.

Long, expensive campaigns for Congress and the WH mean that big money needs to back candidates. Big money means one of the two major parties MUST back you financially.

#ThirdParty candidates have almost always been spoilers for the Democrats' success and helped Republicans.

Tell us how to get corruption, big money and billionaires out of our system, and how to convince our corrupt politicians to get rid of the same #CitizensUnited that profitd them... THEN maybe we could have more parties.

Until such time as we can magically make that happen, we will have only two choices.

@mariellequinton Fair points.

I'll add though that our electoral system is especially bad for choosing mayors: #RankedChoiceVoting would be a major improvement.