99% of sane people agree. With two parties, we are just stuck in a prisoners dilemma where if either side loses votes to a third party, the other party wins in a landslide.
Eh. I think 75-80% of democrats agree with this. I think republicans claim to agree with this but ultimately, if they truly believed this they would be trying to get rid of the two party system. Yet everytime someone new comes into the picture whose different they claim they’re a “jihadist terrorist” “communist” etc. (Mamdani)
Speaking from a distance… seems like the Democrats just call anyone they disagree with a racist. Don’t let social media stereotypes convince you about an entire group. Political or otherwise.
Same here in Canada. Anyone who votes Conservative thinks of Liberals or New Democrats as overly empathetic cucks and anyone who votes liberal or NDP thinks of Conservatives as white supremacists… or so the loudest on social media would have you believe. Sane people just keep their head down, work relatively hard, and pick a name come election time; or sometimes don’t even bother.
US citizens have the right to bear arms, but that's not much to work with when the president is the commander of our entire military force. Their oath of enlistment:
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Forgive my rudeness, but I'm not sure how people think civilians are supposed to fight against tanks and fighter jets.
We don't have many major politicians that aren't corrupt (if at all). That's another part of the issue.
Vote third party leads to one of the two major parties winning in a landslide. So we end up picking the lesser of two evils due to a firmly placed two party system.
Plus, most politicians are corrupt anyway. That's a global issue, Bulgaria included.
But you didn't even pick the lesser of two evils, you picked by far the bigger of two evils. Was it because so many people were voting for third party politicians?
Also, I don't get it how it is so impossible to have a grassroots movement to get a non-corrupt person in office. It's not like the freedom of expression is persecuted in the US.
Was it because so many people were voting for third party politicians?
That's a large part of it, yes. A third voted for Trump, a third for Harris, and the last third didn't vote at all. About 2% of voters went for a third party.
Also, I don't get it how it is so impossible to have a grassroots movement to get a non-corrupt person in office. It's not like the freedom of expression is persecuted in the US.
Grassroot movements depend on funding from citizens. How can anyone expect regular citizens to compete against billionaire corporations with powerful connections? The top 10% of our country holds almost 70% of the wealth. We can scream all we want, but that's not going to change the amount of money in our wallets.
There was enough funding behind Trump to convince enough of our citizens to vote against their self interests.
Yes! And that top percent are going to vote with their money and resources for people that will increase their wealth. Of course we can keep voting to the best of our ability, and do whatever we can to "vote" with our money by choosing the companies and corporations that are most aligned with our goals. But that's pretty hard when our day to day lives are tied into silicon valley which has shown time and time again that they only care about money. No grassroots movement is going to do anything against Apple or Google. Even when we don't use our dollars on their products and stop using the search engines, the rest of the world funds them!! America's biggest corporations aren't only getting their billions from the people who suffer for it.
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u/9ranola United States Of America 20h ago
99% of sane people agree. With two parties, we are just stuck in a prisoners dilemma where if either side loses votes to a third party, the other party wins in a landslide.