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There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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And Americans only have to pick one out of two opposing parties. How hard can it be?
The problem is two-fold. The majority of Americans are passively informed, and the majority of our news publications are compromised by wealthy owners.
Also, it’s two months, not three. Early voting ballots go out in the end of September.
This is true in the vast majority of European countries too. If anything, you usually find an exception in a public broadcasting channel, which may or may not be influenced by political officials.
The US has NPR and access to foreign news services, they are just absolutely disgustingly lazy.
You have way more faith in NPR these days than I do. If you haven't noticed the massive decline in quality of journalistic integrity there I don't know what to tell you.
Passively informed is an understatement, also we're supposed to be available to work at a moments call, with limited time off availability. Am I gonna just tell my boss I'm leaving early to go vote?
I mean.... Yes?!??... If it's normal for a boss to chew you out for voting, then they're being more transparent about voter suppression than I thought.
It goes deeper than that. Those same news Publications are financially incentivized to prolong and protract the election seasons. They work incredibly hard to not talk about policies are issues but to focus on process stories. They've created this notion that there's not enough time for an election.
That's why you seem to think two months isn't enough time. When it's plenty.
People making a choice isn't the hard part. All 51 different territories having different rules for their elections is the hard part.
skill issue
Most of the problem States purposely fuck things up.
How is that the hard part? Each state organizes their own elections, they only need to abide by their own rules. No one is involved in organizing elections in all 51 territories at the same time.
At least they don't have 51 different constitutuons. Unlike ESSU.
Technically they do, the US constitution is just the trump card. State constituions in the US are kind of a hot mess.
After enough elections, you get tired of picking the party that aligns with you on 4% of issues because it's ever so slightly higher than the other party which aligns with you on 0.5%.