Voting opportunity is righteous. So is an acceptable level of validity. Meaning, clearing voter rolls, a legitimate way to ascertain the validity of a ballot. Deadlines to get the ballots there in a timely manner, so that we're not waiting until 7:00 am to find out election results. In essence, some basic rules, that would give people faith in the process. The ability to verify someones identity, make sure the ballot wasn't cast by some dead person's family member, being able to write the date on the ballot, and get it there in a timely manner, is not too much to ask, and frankly, if it is, do we really want them voting in the first place? Why not let the family pet cast a ballot or two?
Fair enough lol. I obviously did not read that in the spirit in which it was intended or I would have chuckled and moved on lol.
Because he can't win in our first-past-the-post system. Out of those 3 candidates he most aligns with me. Definitely not on everything, but that's true of all candidates. It's a foregone conclusion that he can't win though. If we had Ranked Choice Voting I'd put him first to indicate that preference and then my vote would be transferred to a more electable candidate when he got eliminated. But we're stuck with the system we've got and so a vote for any 3rd party is just a vote for whichever of the two main party candidates benefit from lower turnout, in this case Trump.
Perot got 19%, I do believe. If they (media and dems) allow him to debate those two, he might well pull ahead of both on that stage in 2 hours.
Ok so Cliven Bundy and his gang are a special brand of stupid with a special place in my heart. When Finicum got his I just shook my head because that was their goal, to get themselves Ruby Ridged and become martyrs. They didn't accomplish it originally with the livestock standoff so they invented it with the Oregon Wildlife Refuge.
He won't for the sheer reason that people think he won't. +50% is a huge threshold and with Trump having a lock on his around 35-40% basically every Biden voter would have to defect, which is never happening as most people just don't follow things that closely and plenty just go party line.
I find this to be a common opinion on the right, the whole 'if you can't be bothered to do it right, do we really want your ****ing vote' thing. Or take off work, or make it to the polls, or whatever. And I just fundamentally disagree. So much so that I favor Australia's model where voting is mandatory(small
We're really getting into the weeds here on theory, which the social media shortform format doesn't really allow for, but ultimately when you're looking at most Marxist-Leninist theory from Lenin forward you're into the realm of implementation. I'm not really on that train in the same way, as Marx's observations are fundamentally predicated on technological determinism. Very simply, any current economic state a society finds itself in is dictated by the level of technological development at the time. Attempts at artificially inducing theorized economic states before they develop naturally(i.e. revolution) are therefore inherently flawed. They could be steps on that path of awareness and class consciousness, but they'll only be successful when the conditions are present. Stalin trying to micromanage the entire economy with early 20th century tech or Mao killing all the sparrows because he's an idiot are not going to bring us Star Trek post-scarcity communism immediately. But we may eventually get there.
What about 2000? SCOTUS just arbitrarily stopped the recount when Gore was headed to pulling ahead because of the Brooks Brothers Riot. There were protests all over the country. People are still pissed. I am. Aren't you? So I really don't have any sympathy for some rednecks swallowing Trump's snake oil. They are not special and do not deserve to be catered to.
I understand that position, but if you listen to what's coming out of CA at the moment multiple people are predicting Artificial General Intelligence by 2027. Now that timescale is probably overambitious for any number of reasons, but the reality is drop-in remote workers and eventually full labor automation are coming. Not in sci-fi but in our lifetimes. So we need to be looking forward, which is something democracies aren't necessarily the best at.
To be fair, the other guy did say he was going to be a dictator. It was a joke, but that joke falls rather flat after you literally already tried a coup.
Deflection. If you want to go back and discuss 2000 that's for another time. I said since 2016, which is when the vitriol between the two sides really ramped up. Riots, "not my President", Hillary still maintains that the election was stolen from her, etc.
Disagree on basically all. I don't know if you don't remember the specifics or what, but what matters should be counting the votes, who actually won the election. They just ruled 'Screw that!' and ordered the recounts stopped, flat out. That destroys faith in elections far more than Trump saying whatever stupid Trump stuff he says.
I've indicated willingness to compromise on election security several times. Free and fair elections benefit us all. I just don't see how in our current partisan atmosphere.
Opposition research and dirty politics are an American tradition with a long history rooted amongst our Founding Fathers themselves. Coup attempts are not.
