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I am so tired of strategic voting
Unfortunately, that's the only kind of voting there is, so long as there are factions and negotiations (ie always, realistically speaking).
People think of voting at the polls like an opinion poll, but it's not, or shouldn't be treated as such. We are the equivalent of electors in a college or legislators in a parliament. What we wield is not our opinion, it is our political power, what little sliver of it we have in the great mass of the electorate. If Senator John Q. RealtivelyLeft abstained on a bill for universal healthcare tomorrow because the wording displeased him, we wouldn't say "Well, that's just his opinion", we'd lambast him for forsaking a chance to make this fucking country a little less miserable for his own petty partiality. Same with voting.
Look to your left and to your right. Your fellow voters are there, and it's only by majority vote that anything gets passed.
Be strategic. And also, be loud and unafraid of your own position; it's the only way the calculus on strategies changes.
And vote for ranked voting when it comes up in local elections.
Or approval voting
Yes, and that is why you have to have a mechanism to trigger a national vote to cancel any new written law before it takes effect
It is called a referendum
As well as a way that anyone can issue a change of the constitution by triggering a so called initiative which than has to win vote to get through
And of course, make sure nothing disturbs separation of powers like a pardon law or president setting judges without a vote.
First pass the post suuuuucks. Literally anything else is at least slightly better.
Alaska actually had ranked choice this last election. No green candidate in a state they could have done the most good in though
Well apart from outright vanguard single party rule or dictatorship. Absolutely.
Just one more time bro! Just vote for the Dems one more time bro, and they'll definitely stop being a lesser evil. I know they've never done anything to actually obstruct America's slide to fascism, but just vote blue no matter who one more time bro I'm sure this is the time!
Have a look at the swiss voting system 😇 hope you see the way for improvement 😁
But first kill this stupid pardon right of president making all courts a fucking joke and waste of money
aren't you enjoying your pseudo-democracy?