One more day where I rant about election results and then, I will shut up about them. I promiseThis election was about how much Americans distrust the Democratic Party
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I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about the two-party system and possible alternatives. They mentioned ranked choice voting as an alternative where you list your top five that you most agree with, so it feels less win/lose and combats the idea of "throwing your vote away." It is presently in place in Alaska (of course in looking it up I saw something about Alaskans voting to get rid of it):
Ranked voting is actually used in a lot of local elections throughout the U.S. In addition to Alaska, I beliieve it's also being used in Maine presidential elections. I like the model myself, but it's expensive to implement. Also kinda gilding the lily in the vast majority of American elections, where there are really only two viable candidates.
It would work really well in conjunction with third parties.
Cornell West was who I was gonna vote for had Biden remained in the race.
I ended up voting for Harris-but I did so on the Working Families Party ballot line, so kinda, sorta, third-party, though, yeah, half-assed third party.
90 Day Fiancé: I think Brian is finally flying to Brazil to meet what's-her-name. 😀
We have mail in ballots, and I filled out my whole ballot and then just stared at those Presidential choices for a looooong time..... My personal choices were Jill Stein, Cornell West, or.... last and definitely least, Kamala Harris. I voted for Stein in 2012, 2016 and 2020, where I didn't have any interest in Clinton or Biden, and was deeply disappointed by Obama's first term capitulations (FISA, Guantanamo, cracking down on Occupy Wall Street) to autocratic state-organized violence, but I decided I *could* vote for Harris, even if she wasn't my first choice. I felt it was worth the risk to see if the Democratic party actually **wanted out** of this free-fall death-spiral to the lowest common denominator with the Republican party leading the way.
Thanks for voting your conscience rather than voting out of fear. I think that's what democracy is SUPPOSED to be,... voting with our hearts. Voting for what we REALLY WANT, rather than simply voting for one party as a proxy vote *against* the other.
Obama's first-term capitulations were so awful, weren't they? I voted Green in 2012, too. And in 2016 because there was no way I was gonna vote for a woman who had remained married to a rapist. ( I believe Juanita Broderick.)
Harris was a credible candidate, and I was okay voting for her. Though I voted for her via a third party 😀-the Working Families Party.
I completely agree with you that democracy should be about voting for what we want, not merely voting against what we don't want.
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I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about the two-party system and possible alternatives. They mentioned ranked choice voting as an alternative where you list your top five that you most agree with, so it feels less win/lose and combats the idea of "throwing your vote away." It is presently in place in Alaska (of course in looking it up I saw something about Alaskans voting to get rid of it):
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-ranked-choice-voting-5ae6c163af2f8a70a8f90928267c4086
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Ranked voting is actually used in a lot of local elections throughout the U.S. In addition to Alaska, I beliieve it's also being used in Maine presidential elections. I like the model myself, but it's expensive to implement. Also kinda gilding the lily in the vast majority of American elections, where there are really only two viable candidates.
It would work really well in conjunction with third parties.
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I think I’m going to catch up on 90 Day Fiancé today.
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Cornell West was who I was gonna vote for had Biden remained in the race.
I ended up voting for Harris-but I did so on the Working Families Party ballot line, so kinda, sorta, third-party, though, yeah, half-assed third party.
90 Day Fiancé: I think Brian is finally flying to Brazil to meet what's-her-name. 😀
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We have mail in ballots, and I filled out my whole ballot and then just stared at those Presidential choices for a looooong time.....
My personal choices were
Jill Stein, Cornell West, or.... last and definitely least, Kamala Harris.
I voted for Stein in 2012, 2016 and 2020, where I didn't have any interest in Clinton or Biden, and was deeply disappointed by Obama's first term capitulations (FISA, Guantanamo, cracking down on Occupy Wall Street) to autocratic state-organized violence, but I decided I *could* vote for Harris, even if she wasn't my first choice. I felt it was worth the risk to see if the Democratic party actually **wanted out** of this free-fall death-spiral to the lowest common denominator with the Republican party leading the way.
Thanks for voting your conscience rather than voting out of fear.
I think that's what democracy is SUPPOSED to be,... voting with our hearts. Voting for what we REALLY WANT, rather than simply voting for one party as a proxy vote *against* the other.
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Obama's first-term capitulations were so awful, weren't they? I voted Green in 2012, too. And in 2016 because there was no way I was gonna vote for a woman who had remained married to a rapist. ( I believe Juanita Broderick.)
Harris was a credible candidate, and I was okay voting for her. Though I voted for her via a third party 😀-the Working Families Party.
I completely agree with you that democracy should be about voting for what we want, not merely voting against what we don't want.
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