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    1 year ago

    We don’t have time for that. Just vote Democrat, and vote in the primary.

    Undoing FPTP will take a generation. I agree it should be done, but it’s not the priority.

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        1 year ago

        No, I’m saying we can get climate change fixed without undoing fptp. Just give democrats a permanent supermajority. Much like in California.

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          How would you respond to GP’s point that most Democrats are corrupt too? Nobody here is arguing that they’re as bad as Republicans. But just electing them with no regard to their policy positions will produce right wing Democrats who will ultimately hold the same positions as Republicans, and then they’ll split into two FPTP-supporting parties like the Democratic-Republican party did. We will have won a name and nothing more.

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            Nobody here is arguing that they’re as bad as Republicans.

            You may not be, but plenty of people do make this argument, at which point I start calling them irredeemably stupid.

            But just electing them with no regard to their policy positions

            Every Democrat is better than every Republican, period. Given the choice between the two, it’s an obvious choice.

            The time to care about policy positions is in the primaries, in local elections in safe Democrat districts, and in internal democratic party elections (which you may not even know happen, but I attend all of them and it’s an excellent way to meet face to face with the people who in 10 years will be running your state).

            And then, yes, when you get a place that’s safely Democratic, you have the democrats split into a more left and a more right wing. But the new right wing of the democrats is the old left wing.

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              Why are you arguing with (and name calling) people who aren’t even here?

              That’s not a given.

              Internal elections that most working class people can’t attend is one of our problems; they’re taking advantage of voter fatigue.

              What you’re describing already happened. Every Democratic-Republican was better than every Whig. And then the Democrats were bribed further and further right. If we don’t demand that they make themselves easy to replace, then it will happen again.

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                Every Democrat is better than every Republican, period. Given the choice between the two, it’s an obvious choice.

                How is this not a given? With the modern GOP, how could you ever trust anyone who allies themselves with that party? Even if they’re personally a saint, they’re still allied to the GOP.

                Internal elections that most working class people can’t attend is one of our problems; they’re taking advantage of voter fatigue.

                Guess which states have implemented vote-by-mail? Democratic strongholds.

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            1 year ago

            How would you respond to GP’s point that most Democrats are corrupt too?

            Sorry, skipped this. I would say a) it’s an order of magnitude less than Republicans, and b) democratic voters are more willing to hold their candidates to task.

            Still a no brainer.

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              What does “holding them to task” look like if we’ll ultimately vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name? Like, yell at them or something?

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                1 year ago

                Primary them. Oust them from the party.

                See: Andrew Cuomo, Katie Hill, Al Franken…

                That never happens on the Republican side.