It's almost like we live under a fundamentally corrupt system designed for slave masters to work together.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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The electoral college is bad, but isn't the core problem.
The core problem is First Past the Post voting. And before the 1780s, the issues were almost completely unknown because voting at scale wasn't really a thing.
Now, the French saw the problem, or rather a French Mathematician named Condorcet did. He even hacked together a clunky voting system that sort of addressed the problem. But sadly was killed as part of the Reign of Terror.
The person who can beat every other candidate in a one on one election is called the Condorcet Winner.
Anyway the two voting systems that actually fix the problems are Approval and STAR. Both can easily deliver the Condorcet Winner while also supporting an unlimited number of candidates on the ballot.
This is like the ~2 month period in between US election spam, I quite enjoy it. I really don't need 12 months a year of yanks bitching about their idiotic government.
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I want a no party system.
That's how you get a 2-party-system.
Good news, you don't need parties when there are no elections.
My city has a new Marxist Leninist party that has started up after the election. So no they aren't gone, but they are still harebrained.
They still pop up now and again when they want to justify why Trump being elected was better than the filthy LIBERAL getting into office.
Which, itself, is a bit funny considering that third parties didn't have much influence on that.
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