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Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Jordan_Jordan@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cry most likely. Voting doesn't seem very effective and it's less so when the choices are conservative extremist or conservative light.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't vote for a perfect choice; vote for the best choice, and keep doing it. You're not going to get 'perfect' right now, but excising actual cancer will improve the long-term health of the beast and enable even better choices in a few iterations.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are more then two choices on the ballot.

[–] rothaine@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

First Past the Post says "Sorry, but no"

[–] luxyr42@lemmy.dormedas.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support ranked choice voting first. Once we have that, a huge portion of the power the two parties have will fall away

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And that is exactly why ranked choice voting will never happen along with universal healthcare, or not funding endless war and genocide.