With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/40905844

With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It also accentuates the need for ranked choice voting or something similar. You need to give a people a way to say what they want to say with nuance and power. If everyone says they wish they could vote for someone else but need to vote strategically then parties never need to be good and can just thump on about defeating the evil party.

    Yes, I’m from Canada and vote NDP, how did you know?

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 days ago

      But so you know well that a party committing to change the voting system will have a change of heart after realizing the current system brought them to power. (I’m in Canada too ;) ).

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Of course, and how we force the issue I don’t know. I wish people would just stop strategically voting altogether because it only delays, and grows, the issue but that’s a lost cause. Not that I don’t continue to fight that fight but I know that winning people over toward voting in their best interests isn’t the way.