AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.message-squaremessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1799
arrow-up1799message-squareTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square143fedilink
minus-squareJaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up170·5 days agoThird parties are mathematically impossible until we ditch first past the post voting: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo We need our vote to be a list, not a checkbox.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 days agoFPTP is not real democracy for this reason.
Third parties are mathematically impossible until we ditch first past the post voting:
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
We need our vote to be a list, not a checkbox.
FPTP is not real democracy for this reason.