get f*ked. George carlin applies.

Oh, they see the connection. They just want Republicans in office. They don’t give a fuck about the suffering of minorities, they just want the worst possible option in power so they can feel smug about “not supporting the system”.

100% true. If every American eligible to vote got out and voted, the Fascist Pig Party (Republicans) would become a third party.

I don’t want to be the guy that advocates for violence, but…

I can’t understand, in a country so full of guns, that kids are doing active shooter drills in elementary, politicians are not afraid of just getting a bullet to the head for being shitheads. What are your guns for if they don’t serve for the purpose of defending your country from internal threats to democracy. You just have them to kill poor people and minorities or other defenseless people?

Any other country with that free access to high quality guns would have their politicians afraid of just fucking die. Republicans act as they were invulnerable demigods. They have no real consequences, you have to be a real fucker and inept like Trump to not even attempt to hide your wrongdoings and that just gets you a slap in the wrist and you still run for president. And don’t get me started about the democrats that are just blue republicans and you have to suck it up.

Again, violence it’s not a first choice for anyone, but how much are you going to withstand before realizing this? Every social victory against class oppression was done through some level of violence against the oppressors, because the status quo dictated they were right and deserved protection from the state, and the oppressed were the ones that got it wrong. You have corporations legally bribing your lawmakers, you even call it lobbying. Corporations are buying your houses, and the little stuff you still have is being taken away from your hands. The SCOTUS takes bribes and has a clearly biased agenda. You don’t even have a fucking justice system that’s impartial anymore. You can’t just vote that stuff out. Sure, vote Biden now, but don’t sit in your houses for another 4 years hoping for fascist to not take over your country the next time. Take actions, real actions. Take the streets, punch nazis, and hold politicians and corporations accountable. Give them some fucking consequences.

Both sides are bad, votes third party.

Both sides are bad. But vote anyway.

Ah got it so we need to be like Trump’s base and ignore any problems Biden has because that encourages people not to vote. /s

You can call out problems with Biden and acknowledge how that is gonna make left leaning people not want to vote for him and average people not care enough to go out and vote at all without supporting not voting for him.

Eliminating the First Past the Post voting system would enable people to vote for third-party candidates without the risk of a spoiler effect. This change would foster competition in the electoral process, enhancing the quality of candidates for all voters. Additionally, it would likely increase voter turnout and political engagement.

Electoral reform is possible at the state level, Alaska and Maine have already passed electoral reform so it is possible to get this done.

Republicans have already made moves to protect First Past the Post voting. Florida recently made Ranked Choice voting illegal. Fortunately there are many alternatives to FPTP, so the ban still isn’t in the way of passing electoral reform.

So the question remains, why do Blue states still use FPTP voting? Why would you want to use the voting system republicans prefer? There are no republicans stopping these reforms in states that democrats control.

It is clear that democrats understand the flaws of FPTP voting, just talk about voting third party in nearly any social media and you will get a entire flock of Democrats lecturing you on how a vote not for a democrat is a vote for a republican. How can you admit the voting system is flawed and then not make any moves to rectify the situation is beyond me. You don’t get to lecture people on the flaws of FPTP voting and then do nothing to fix the issue.

Here are some videos on the topic if you’d like to know more:

First Past The Post voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Other electoral systems to choose from:

Alternative vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Ranked Choice voting (the one made illegal in Florida)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2fRPRkWvY

Range Voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

Single Transferable Vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

STAR voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-mOeUXAkV0

Mixed Member Proportional representation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

Representative democracy is hard.

Do you want your Brussels sprouts boiled or steamed?

We’re like children getting tricked by our parents into making a choice we didn’t want.

Get involved locally and build from there. Under 60? You’ll be the youngest there in a lot of Democratic clubs.

You need to do more than merely vote

You do realize that you can vote third party and they maybe better aligned with your values?

The only people taking people’s power away are those telling us that we have to choose between the candidates we don’t like and ignore the ones that we do agree with.

I as an Arab American will not vote for someone enabling the death and destruction of my people. Call us Russian trolls all you want.

When your only viable defense to moral superiority is a strawman rather than accepting criticism of your side and labeling it a “both side are same” rhetoric to shift blame.

Don’t forget, Trump said if minorities vote, Republicans will never win another election. Republicans are doing what they can to stay in power and make it harder for people to vote.