With a electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would feel safe to vote for whomsoever they wish, as their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win.
Just search for videos on FPTP voting if you want an explanation on how and why the spoiler effect exists.
Electoral reform is possible in each individual state (for now), we dont need federal reform! Maine and Alaska have already passed electoral reform.
Republicans are moving to make alternative electoral systems illegal in their states. Republicans LOVE first past the post voting. Just sbsolutely adore it. Why would you want to use the same voting system republicans want?
More political parties means a higher percentage of the population is represented by their choices in the voting booth. More people involved in the electoral process, more people engaged.
Its a win win win all around for not just the people, but also for the democratic party. More people voting means more democratic votes. The numbers dont lie. So what’s the hold up blue states?
Some day we will be able to vote for who best represents our interests. We won’t need to grovel on our knees, begging for representationin government. We won’t need to wait for the Republican party to stop existing.
We can do it right now. We don’t have to get over a damn thing. If anyone needs to get over themselves, it would be the democrats who assume they are the only way forward.
Consider starting a campaign to change how we vote in your own state! Force our representatives to compete with fresh outside ideas. We deserve the best representation, not excuses.
Hillary was the only candidate unlikeable enough to lose to Trump. She should stick that in her pipe and smoke it.
Honestly I hate hearing her voice even more than Trump’s, and I used to vote democrat.
Well she’s out of touch if she thinks it’s not still bipartisan.
shut the fuck up forever hillary
I agree but the fact that it’s her saying it means it will not be helpful.
Two things can be true at the same time.
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She is a target of mysgonstic flavored consisparcy theories.
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She truly is unlikeable with half measure policies while being woefully out of touch with the average person.
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She is / was 100x more qualified than Trump.
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American voters are idiots.
She’s from the Chicago suburbs, fuck that entitled bitch.
It’s easy to be more qualified than totally unqualified. She was the obvious choice, but her total lack of charisma to voters destroyed that.
The worst part is that more people voted for her, just not where it counts because she couldn’t be bothered to campaign there
Yeah, cause she’s an elitist piece of shit, which makes her unqualified to anyone with a fuckin brain.
Still more qualified than the woefully unqualified, elitist trash that is Trump. Lol
Sure, but that doesn’t negate the fact that Dem shills are dumb as fuck too, just not blatantly malicious like Republicans
Ok, but she got more votes across the nation in a nationwide election for a Federal job, so…?
Cause people are idiots…?
And she stole the election from Bernie…?
As shitty as this sounds, does it matter whether or not she won the popular vote if that was not the metric for winning?
She, a career politician, should know that and her strategy was lacking.
Oh, for sure, she should have had a better strategy. I don’t disagree that she ran a terrible campaign. But OP said “more people voted for her” despite her bad strategy, which is true and frankly should have been a national point of months of protests. But instead, the person I responded to implied it doesn’t matter because she’s [insert stereotypical Clinton hate vomit].
It does matter. She did get more votes. That is in fact a fairer and more just way of representing a national vote for a national/Federal position. We all know there’s an electoral college. But there absolutely shouldn’t be because it inherently counts some votes as more valuable than others, which is frankly incompatible with democracy. So yes, that definitely matters.
And yet, unelectable!
- She should have run on a platform that was better than “What else are you going to do, vote for Trump?”
- She shouldn’t have pushed trump as the pied Piper candidate in the first place.
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Hillary Clinton is irrelevant, and should get over herself.
She should go hang out with her buddy Henry Kissinger, whatever he’s up to these days.
Rich old bat, nobody cares; she might not be first for the guillotine but she’s definitely in the queue.
What political side even are you? I assume some far left tankie idiocy.
Taking sides in politics is just about the most pointless thing you can possibly do with your existence on this earth. They don’t know you. No one cares. It’s not a team sport.
So caring about things and the world is pointless?
They don’t like to hear it, because the guillotine jokes are comforting to them, but calling for the mass execution of undesirables (no matter the flavor) is the most authoritarian loving thing there is. 100% tankie shit.
There are massive changes that need to happen in the west, but revolt and execution are not it.
They are just hoping they’ll be in the “in” crowd when the violence starts, not realizing that by a small whim of chance, they could actually be the ones being hunted. Wouldn’t be a comforting joke then.
Robespierre definitely found that one out.
I just hope they never try making those jokes in Germany, I don’t think their Bougyevik hearts could handle the irony of being prosecuted for accidentally stanning the most popular method of execution outside the camps during the Nazi reign of terror.
And always makes things worse. Just shut up already.
As a middle aged millennial (how the hell did that happen?) I am so proud of this comment section.
The two powers with a death grip on our society need to (a) let that shit go and (b) fix our voting system before that society breaks.
Changing our voting system will take longer than we have before society breaks
“Most people feel disenchanted about our political system. I know, I’ll insult them into shutting the fuck up”
It’s especially funny, coming from one of the people who have made us disenchanted
OK Boomer.
I’m voting for Biden but I’m not obligated to be excited or happy about it or to not critique it for the DNC. It’s a choice between a lawful neutral (at best) milquetoast waffling imperial fuckhead and an outright chaotic evil dictatorial megalomaniac imperial fuckhead. One choice is clearly superior but that’s the choice that’s also dangling the more dangerous choice over me like a threat as the only reason to vote for them. That’s pretty fucking abusive, if you ask me.
Talking down to voters with stuff like “Why don’t you go run for something, then?” worked out so well for her before, right?
South Park called it long ago and it still fits. It fits with Hillary and Trump back in 2016 and today. It’s a choice between a shit sandwich and a douche bag. They just missed the part where one is hell bent on destroying our democracy and then added a season with Mr Garrison as president.
Now we are repeating history and might put “Garrison” in charge again. I never liked history but I didn’t think we were this dumb it hasn’t even been a decade but that’s more to do with brain washing
Well said. The two front runners are like creepy old lords from Game of Thrones or something. One is much worse, but neither is good.
The Clintons need to retire quietly, nobody wants their input.
One is much worse, but neither is good.
Given that one of them will be president after the election, it should be obvious that preventing the much worse option is in everyone’s best interest.
It’s like the fucking Trolley problem, but blaming the entire setup on the person next to the switch.
Who put that person there? Why are we shifting the blame on them? Stop the trolley, don’t act all smug pointing fingers screaming “noone normal would let the trolley go straight”.
We DEFINITELY don’t need her help with any elections.
She really just needs to get over herself and shut the fuck up. She lost to Trump. Why the fuck would anyone listen to her on how to beat him?
Please go away, get out of public life and stop “helping.”
Being a dick to people is not going to get them to vote your way. Same with the ‘deplorables’ comment. I agreed with her on it, but it was a stupid thing to say in an election.
Lewis Black said her problem was that she never went away. I’d say that’s pretty spot on. Shitheads wants attention, wants to be important. Maybe if she’d given the public a break and then came back for a second act it would have been different for her. But we’re still in act one and it never ends.
Yes, it’s like she took notes from her husband, but isn’t Smooth Willy enough to pull it off. I think it’s because deep down, she is just a bitch.
South Park said it best: “my wife is a crazy bitch.”
I think the deplorables comment would have been fine if they did try to cowardly walk it back immediately after in the typical miquetoast, ‘cater to everyone’ Democratic fashion.
Maybe they wouldn’t have thought they had to if they could have counted on the left for any of the energy coming up with reasons why them not voting is everyone else’s fault.
The white left being shocked and outraged that they in fact do not get to call themselves the base when they have to be dragged kicking and screaming by their hair just to get into a poll booth, never mind to not be a fucking moron and vote green or some shit, never ceases to amaze me.
The Tea Party are the Republican base because they don’t have to be convinced to show up for the general you entitled fucking morons.
Oh right, when you’re running in a popularity contest and lose, it’s the fault of the people voting not your own. The fact that she couldn’t even be more appealing than a known conman, failed businessman, and reality TV host with zero political experience really says a lot.
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Rather than calling us names how about making material compromises with us?
Explain something to me. How can you simultaneously believe we don’t vote but care that we don’t vote? Biden won the 2020 general election so if we didn’t vote for him then who cares if we won’t vote for him in 2024?
So which is it?
It wouldn’t have. That’s when I knew we were screwed.
“Cater to everyone but the left”
I’m still convinced that only person insufferable enough to lose to Donald fucking Trump in 2016 was Hillary Clinton.
You can hate it all you want but in some level it’s a popularity contest and she is utterly utterly unlikeable.
Her smarmy q&a with those millennials was a fucking PR nightmare.
Man I was just waiting to hear what she had to say before making MY decision this November 🙄
Is she scared there won’t be anymore opportunies for $200,000 speeches if Trump gets a second term? What’s she worried about?
Conversely, maybe she thinks there will be MORE opportunity for $200k speeches if Trump wins!
