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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 37 points 3 days ago (23 children)

If you have a problem with this line of reasoning then your actual problem is first past the post voting.

Abolish first past the post voting and you can finally actually vote for things you like, rather than against things you hate, but we're stuck in first past the post voting, so, you must vote strategically.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Just curious, do you really expect Republicans or democrats to support legislation to end their stranglehold on American politics?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

"In 2023, 74 bills were introduced supporting ranked-choice voting and 57 of these bills had only Democrat sponsors. In fact, just eight percent of the total bills received bipartisan support."

No, but there's one party that has shown support for it and one party that has attempted to outright ban it.

It's an easy choice.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's one party that pretends to support it publicly as long as they can blame the Republicans for "blocking it".

Ftfy. This is the Democrats go to game plan.

It is insulting to pretend Democrats support ranked choice voting while they're suing to keep it off of the ballot in DC.

There are some democrats that support ranked choice voting.

There are almost no republicans that do.

It is still an easy choice.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

It's almost as if a political party isn't a monolith. Crazy.

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