• @uienia@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I admire third party voters in the US, trying to bring down the 2 party system.

    It is a pretty misinformed attempt, considering that voting for a third party will never bring down the US 2 party system. It will at best replace one of the 2 parties with another party. The 2 party system is baked into the US political system on account of its election laws, and it will take some major revisions of the US constitution to change that to something else.

    • @Jentu
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      132 months ago

      That’s essentially what happened with the Whigs. The leadership decided that they weren’t going to decide one way or another on a strong stance for/against slavery, ignoring the pleading of their own constituents. So the anti slavery ex-Whigs made Lincoln’s Republican Party and the Whigs never recovered.

      So not only is biden likely handing the election to trump, the moral outcry that is being ignored might kill the Democratic Party for good.

    • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      On point except not sure the Constitution has to change.

      For example Alaska implemented ranked choice voting, and states have implemented proportional allotment.