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Democrats are trying to work out what went wrong. On the left a consensus is forming
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I'm still trying to understand why you only get to choose between two candidates. I get how it works. But so many countries elect their president in 1-2 turns.
Also also, Switzerland's way of electing it's executive power is much better.
Because other countries made better or updated their Democracies since the US was formed. US never got an update.
I had a friend in the Navy back around 2015 that wholeheartedly believed that this is why America would fail.
The US government is the longest, unchanged Democracy in the world. We've had the same documents, modified slightly but not enough, as the rule of land for almost 250 years now.
He equated it to a white board that, over 250 years, kept having stuff added to it, but nothing was "removed," just crossed out and something written next to it, or over it.
And now 250 years later, we've essentially resorted to trying to fill the spaces between lines and letters and around the margins, but they've already been filled, so we're just writing over what's already written.
It's about to get a firmware downgrade unfortunately
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
I've been spamming the shit out of this video because it is exactly the answer to that question. Ranked choice voting (or maybe a few others) are the answer.
There are organizations working to get ranked preference voting systems adopted, I donate to them. Fairvote.org is one of them. If the participation of Conservadems and GOPers with fair vote.org bothers you, there are other organizations.