I also feel like the anti-electoralism of the far-left in the US is deliberately meant to keep them from running for office and making positive changes. As long as the CIA can convince them that the only solution to the country’s ills is to commit treason, it’s going to be a lot harder for them to influence our politics and policies.
I want to see Communist City Council members. I want Communists to run as Democrats and get their asses into seats and work their way up to real power in the party so we can actually start implementing changes for the better.
I want the Republicans to NOT be lying when the call Democrats “communists”.
DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) is sort of trying. Sometimes I feel like they’re the “controlled opposition” of the DNC, and that their leadership is “in cahoots” with the DNC leadership and are deliberately thwarting any efforts that could truly help the DSA take off. But that’s probably paranoid, and definitely not Occam’s Razor, I suppose.
What is it they say? “Don’t attribute to malice that which can be more easily be attributed to incompetence.”?
Hanlon’s Razor, but yes, I don’t think I would attribute it to a conspiracy per se, rather that those people just want to hold on to power any way they can paired with the fact that the system is inherently rigged against any third party from establishing itself.
I believe that absolutely none of that can come about until we enact ranked choice or another voting system to allow people to vote for other parties without fear of throwing away their vote.
Anyway, I’m not sure how we can enact ranked choice voting without first infiltrating and filling the existing two-party system with people who eventually want to enact ranked choice voting. As it is currently, the only people in politics are people who are happy with the two party system and know how to manipulate it for electoral and personal gain.
You’re right, it’s a chicken and the egg scenario. I really don’t know how we can convince politicians to push for RCV when that’s exactly what will let some measure of power slip from their hands. A few states (Alaska, Maine, & Nevada) have done it now, and North Carolina had it but their legislature “thought better of it” and repealed it.
I agree with you on most of this stuff.
I also feel like the anti-electoralism of the far-left in the US is deliberately meant to keep them from running for office and making positive changes. As long as the CIA can convince them that the only solution to the country’s ills is to commit treason, it’s going to be a lot harder for them to influence our politics and policies.
I want to see Communist City Council members. I want Communists to run as Democrats and get their asses into seats and work their way up to real power in the party so we can actually start implementing changes for the better.
I want the Republicans to NOT be lying when the call Democrats “communists”.
DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) is sort of trying. Sometimes I feel like they’re the “controlled opposition” of the DNC, and that their leadership is “in cahoots” with the DNC leadership and are deliberately thwarting any efforts that could truly help the DSA take off. But that’s probably paranoid, and definitely not Occam’s Razor, I suppose.
What is it they say? “Don’t attribute to malice that which can be more easily be attributed to incompetence.”?
Hanlon’s Razor, but yes, I don’t think I would attribute it to a conspiracy per se, rather that those people just want to hold on to power any way they can paired with the fact that the system is inherently rigged against any third party from establishing itself.
I believe that absolutely none of that can come about until we enact ranked choice or another voting system to allow people to vote for other parties without fear of throwing away their vote.
Ahh, yes. Hanlon’s Razor.
Anyway, I’m not sure how we can enact ranked choice voting without first infiltrating and filling the existing two-party system with people who eventually want to enact ranked choice voting. As it is currently, the only people in politics are people who are happy with the two party system and know how to manipulate it for electoral and personal gain.
You’re right, it’s a chicken and the egg scenario. I really don’t know how we can convince politicians to push for RCV when that’s exactly what will let some measure of power slip from their hands. A few states (Alaska, Maine, & Nevada) have done it now, and North Carolina had it but their legislature “thought better of it” and repealed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
More than any one political issue, this needs to happen first for any real change to occur.
Agreed. But it will have to start on the municipal level and work its way up, I believe.