We’re completely fucked as a society. That’s why.
Tldr
"The easiest explanation has to do with asymmetric information.
By now, almost everyone in America knows Trump and has made up their minds about him. Recent polls have found that nearly 90% of voters say they do not need to learn more about Trump to decide their vote.
But they don’t yet know Harris, or remain undecided about her. More on this in a moment."
Imagine having several political parties competing to defeat the republicans. With Ranked choice voting, people could be free to vote for anyone they wish, and if their preference didnt win, they could still have their vote count against the Republicans. No chance for a spoiler effect.
Since how we vote is controlled at the state level, we dont need to wait for federal reform. Some states already have passed electoral reform.
Who would say no to more then one chance to win the country away from the republican party? The democratic party, that’s who. Every state they control, they could do away with First Past The Post voting.
And democrats very publicly announce they understand the flaws with FPTP voting all the time. Longer then ive been alive. Just talk about voting 3rd party to nearly any blue conservative, IRL or otherwise, and they will gladly show you they understand the faults of the voting system most states use. Any news article about the green party would more then demonstrate their knowledge on this particular issue.
The democrats would prefer the country to teeter on this edge over having to actually have to compete for your vote.
Party over country… The democratic party.
Dems gotta get more racist if the want to defeat trump!
You’re joking, but that’s how they used to win elections.
Then the dixiecrat filth switched parties and they started losing all the elections.
Gaza. Its Gaza.
It’s not Gaza, most people don’t give a shit about Palestinians, I’d guess 60-odd percent of Americans wouldn’t give a shit it Israel went through and committed a formal genocide so long as they didn’t have to see it on TV. Evangelicals would buy t-shirts, just one step closer to the rapture.
To most Americans it’s just more dead Muslims, which means Christianity is winning, which is depressing, but sadly American.
I think you’re out of touch with the average US American. Most do care about Gaza. Maybe not enough to protest, but enough to just stay home and not vote.
Most Christians in the US are secular. The Zionist Christians evangelical are few in number. But lots of billionaires are zionists
Live in the bay area, we care the most in the country by far, only a minority here give a shit. Those assholes who blocked the bridge just pissed everyone off.
You live in a filter bubble, and have fun with that, the reason bibi can do whatever he wants is because very few people care, and most that do are so young that they’re unlikely to vote anyway.
It’s not just secularism, it’s also that Palestinians look a lot like the guys who flew planes into the towers, and that we fought for decades and were taught were inhuman enemies that just enjoyed brutalizing women and innocents. Texas just wants the middle east to give up their oil, otherwise nobody else would care about them either.
The only thing I find funny about the whole thing is Israelis turning around so quickly to commit their own genocide, but again, it’s just an ironic but of humor.
Personally the middle east is a shit hole, we should stay as far away from it as possible.
We have serious humanitarian issues in our own hemisphere, especially in south America, which should be our responsibility if we didn’t actually start them ourselves, we should fix them, while cutting off all aid to Israel, but the last thing I want to do is get more involved in the middle east.
Check the polls. The majority of US citizens are opposed to what Israel has done to Gaza.
And I’m one of them, on principle.
But I care about my own country 5 million times more than I care about a few poor people suffering in a different country, especially when they aren’t the only one’s suffering.
Please, run a poll on how the majority of US citizens feel about stomping kittens next, I’m really curious how the numbers come out.
You live in a fantasy world, real people have shit to worry about.
Given the difficulties in polling, don’t believe it.
Do go vote. (When you can legally do so.)
