Message from @GoldenPhoenix
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how so? the runoff system eliminates strategic voting
which is dumb and anti-democratic
(I know we're a republic, but still)
The only way a third party would win in the US is by claiming the vast centrist no man's land in between the two hyperpolarized major parties.
Right, but the winning strategy for politicians is still to achieve a plurality of the vote, so the incentives haven't changed at all. There would still be a tendency towards two parties each controlling about 50% of the electorate and trying to wiggle for that extra 1%
not necessarily, because it would allow for third parties to "band together" and it would also split the major parties by allowing same-party competition, splintering the voter base further. it might still be 2 parties, but it could balance out to be a 3 or 4 party system, as opposed to the forced 2 party system that FPTP enforces
Fair enough
no, they should vote people. Not Partys
Limit the Size of the Partys
They should vote policies.
^
or change the Party System completely
oh nah
No direct democracy pls
I don't trust you people
Nobody wants direct plebiscite democracy.
I'd rather vote for a president than vote for a group of people that *might* vote for the president for me
Certainly not at the federal level.
I'd rather have a local government with much more power than the president.
A bit of decentralization of power would be much welcomed, especially in these troubling times
well yes. I'd rather have local leadership, which has the most control in the local sector, and our federal government only intervening in multi-state issues
I think everyone wants a lot more than a bit.
but anyway, I got a date. see you losers later
But if I had my way I'd probably make the feds too weak and we'd lose all that sweet territory we just spent trillions conquering
Lose it to whom?
Whoever wants it back?
idk, whoever has the stronger army, since I'd slash our defense budget that's way too high
The territory wouldn't go anywhere during a secession breakup.
but that's just me
I'm not talking about US territory, I mean the foreign land we've got boots stomping on
All our military bases that support the puppet governments we've painstakingly built up in the past 60 years
let them die
Well, sure, a breakup would cancel a lot of American imperial ventures.
puppet governments are bad
Puppet governments are bad when you have to live underneath one
yes, and how many people are we making live underneath them?
that's immoral
But I don't, and I like my free trade coffee
saying "it's bad for them but fine for us" is a terrible double standard.
The US itself has 50 puppet governments.
a human is a human