EDIT: Well this blew up, so here's another important message. Many of you reading this and nodding along might well feel like neither party really works for you, or maybe you hear "neither party" and want to yell at me "there's more than two parties idiot, I'M a Libertarian/Green/Constitutionalist". Well, there's more than two parties, but there is a two party system, and it exists mostly because we have "choose one" voting (also known as plurality or First Past the Post) and it's really REALLY broken. It only actually selects an accurate winner if only two people are (serious) contenders, because if one of those two people were replaced by two similar people, voters who liked the one would be split between the two, and the other one could win with 36% of the vote, not very democratic eh? There are several solutions, but the one I think is most promising is called STAR Voting, you can read all about it at www.equal.vote . It gives excellent flexibility and responsiveness to the honest will of the people, and it allows candidates to run without spoiling the election for similar candidates. That means partisan primaries matter less, and voters get to hear from a broader range of ideologies before giving their honest opinion about all of them, and the winner is the one who has the deepest AND broadest support, the one who will create the greatest total happiness/least total unhappiness at the result among everyone who voted. It's a brilliant system, but it needs more awareness, so if you like it, spread the word, tell your friends, tell your enemies, call your representatives, make signs and bring them to protests and rallies. This won't reform come from party bosses, or corporate overlords, it will come from the grass roots on every side of every aisle, rising up to demand fairer, freer elections that don't boil down to "the lesser of two evils". We are complicated people with complicated opinions (like being pretty far left but skeptical of full on socialism and actually thinking gun control is kinda pointless at this point and by the way gender is totally on a spectrum.... just for example....) and we shouldn't be forced to just select a single candidate to "vote" for, largely because the only OTHER plausible winner is much worse. That's a bad way to vote, and a bad way to live. Let's make this movement happen. Oh and check out r/endFPTP if you want to get really into the weeds about vote reform.
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