• MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ah yes, the DNC, known for making good decisions for our democracy. How they trusted Hillary on us leading to the election of Trump.

    We just need ranked choice voting at a national scale. Until that happens we’re going to keep dealing with this bullshit. A lot of Republicans don’t want to elect a fascist anymore than a lot of democrats don’t want to elect a geriatric. But just like democrats a lot of those Republicans think they have no choice. These could all have been avoided with a different voting system and the more moderate members of each party could have voted together.

    I agree with you, but the system is just fucking broken.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Until that happens we’re going to keep dealing with this bullshit.

      Bruh…

      The current DNC is not going to support RCV. Some state parties might, but the DNC is run by moderates who know most of their votes are because literally the only other option is a Republican.

      To get rcv, we need to get a progressive president who will actually try to fix the DNC.

      Obama wasn’t perfect, and he made a lot of mistakes.

      But the one that keeps fucking us over is instead of fixing the DNC when he had a shot, he just ignored them because they just ignored him in 08.

      If Obama had tried to fix the DNC, Bernie would have won in 2016, would be exiting his second term, and likely handing the torch to president AOC.

      trump would still be known as a shitty reality TV host, and we’d all be better off.

      At this point tho, the DNC may be beyond saving.