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62% of Americans agree US government should ensure everyone has health coverage
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And a lot of people who want healthcare didn't bother voting.
Your inactions have consequences.
"but I couldn't vote for the Democrats in good faith!!!"
Well now you've helped elect Trump. Hope that aligns with your morals!
(General "you", not you specifically)
Aren't you concerned at all with the large number of people that are under represented by their choices in the voting booth?
State level electoral reform will give more political parties the chance to be involved in future elections with no chance of a spoiler effect.
People would be free to vote for their preferred candidate, safe in the knowledge that their vote would still be counted against the republicans.
Who could say no to more democracy? Who could possibly be against ensuring their fellow country men/women/and more are fully represented to the best of our ability? Republicans? Yes, of course they are against democracy. How about the democratic party? Do they support democracy?
More political parties means more chances to beat the Republicans. More political parties means more people are involved in politics. More people being involved in politics statistically means more votes for the democratic party.
Why is the DNC saying no to these easy extra votes? Why wouldn't democrats use every tool at their disposal to defeat the republicans?
Perhaps they view their poltical party to be more important then the nation state itself. Party over country, at all costs.
Yes, but they should still vote. Anyone who didn't vote decided that they're okay with Trump. Generally, anyone not okay with Trump who didn't vote is either stupid, ignorant, or lying about not being okay with Trump being elected.
Yeah, I agree. But you don't have that. So we work with the system we have.
If you think that Trump is worse than the Democrat candidate, then you vote Democrat. Deciding not to vote doesn't give you more democracy, it gives you less.
Not with FPTP. I'm in Canada, where we realistically have a 3-party system. What happens in some parts of the country (including Federally) is the Left vote gets split and the Right vote often ends up winning.
If it were that simple and easy, they'd do it. But it's not. If the Right doesn't split too, and if FPTP isn't replaced with something better, then the Left has just screwed itself out of ever being elected again.
Tbf the Democrats aren't particularly interested in addressing healthcare either.. the money has to be removed from the system for it to improve. It is currently working as designed.
So you'd rather live in a fascist dictatorship than a neoliberal semidemocracy?
The world doesn't have to be this way, dragonfucker. False dichotomies only keep us in our place.
Yeah, you could have protests, and direct action, or even a revolution. Which are all way harder in a fascist dictatorship. You voted for the dichotomy.