The Democrats’ botched 2024 autopsy doesn’t just leave out Gaza. It also simply pretends the left-populist upsurge embodied by Zohran Mamdani isn’t happening, while coveting its achievements.
Ain’t gonna work. That’ll just split whichever side of the FPTP duopoly you hate less and the ones you hate more will win. Don’t do it.
For any of that to be plausible you need to change the voting system first.
The sad truth is that the only viable option is to slowly turn the massive ship in primaries and local elections and eventually that’ll bubble to the top.
And to change the voting system, you need to have more than two effective parties so that the legal arguments and damages can be demonstrated in practice. They ain’t gonna change it for “wannabe voting” / “unrealised votes”, not unless heads start literally rolling. So it’s one of the two.
It is. Multi party properly representative democracy is obviously desirable. There is just no clear path from here to there since FPTP makes it impossible and whoever wins in FPTP doesn’t want to change it.
I guess you can try revolution. Good luck. I’ll be cheering you on from an ocean away.
This is why getting a third party Going and Voted is important.
Ain’t gonna work. That’ll just split whichever side of the FPTP duopoly you hate less and the ones you hate more will win. Don’t do it.
For any of that to be plausible you need to change the voting system first.
The sad truth is that the only viable option is to slowly turn the massive ship in primaries and local elections and eventually that’ll bubble to the top.
And to change the voting system, you need to have more than two effective parties so that the legal arguments and damages can be demonstrated in practice. They ain’t gonna change it for “wannabe voting” / “unrealised votes”, not unless heads start literally rolling. So it’s one of the two.
It is. Multi party properly representative democracy is obviously desirable. There is just no clear path from here to there since FPTP makes it impossible and whoever wins in FPTP doesn’t want to change it.
I guess you can try revolution. Good luck. I’ll be cheering you on from an ocean away.