The time to have a meaningful vote is in primaries and usually in elections outside the president. Senators and House Reps can advocate for and potentially enact a better voting system. Your state congress might also be a good place to focus if your state isn’t yet in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - that wouldn’t get us all the way to prop rep or ranked choice but it’d at least get us past the idiocy that is the electoral college.
This looks like you’re setting a criterion you know won’t be met. In the unlikely event that it is met before the two party hegemony yields fascism or societal collapse, I have little faith that there won’t be a shiny new criterion to prevent voting against the duopoly.
Ranked choice voting FIRST, then you can do your protest vote.
Exactly. Get rid of this ridiculous electoral college and make every vote count.
So never?
Like there is literally zero reason for them to ever put forward a candidate who tries to bring about this change if they can never lose your vote.
The time to have a meaningful vote is in primaries and usually in elections outside the president. Senators and House Reps can advocate for and potentially enact a better voting system. Your state congress might also be a good place to focus if your state isn’t yet in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - that wouldn’t get us all the way to prop rep or ranked choice but it’d at least get us past the idiocy that is the electoral college.
This would carry more weight if Democrats had a presidential primary where the nominee wasn’t preordained since 2012.
People keep saying this but nobody I’ve voted for in the primaries has won going all the way back to Kucinich.
I’m beginning to think it doesn’t actually work.
It’s fucking hard to overcome centrist corporate democrats but the number of progressives in office has been creeping up.
The only time neoliberals even pretend to want rcv is when they’re using it to set limits on how people to their left should vote.
This looks like you’re setting a criterion you know won’t be met. In the unlikely event that it is met before the two party hegemony yields fascism or societal collapse, I have little faith that there won’t be a shiny new criterion to prevent voting against the duopoly.
Hey, if ALASKA can do it…
Alaska also has UBI, which is a pipe dream for the rest of the nation as well.
Alaska, a deeply conservative state, did it - it isn’t a pipe dream.
Well, that’s the shared oil revenue, and it’s not exactly something you can live on.
$1,312 a year. So a little over $100 a month…
https://pfd.alaska.gov/payments/tax-information