09-25-2019, 04:48 PM
(09-25-2019, 04:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote:The threshold for third parties to get on the ballot in Texas has beenlowered in a way that watchdog groups, nonpartisan experts and progressive activists all say is designed to siphon votes from Democratic candidates. https://t.co/hfjIYHHSGM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 23, 2019
We have apparently now hit the "democracy is bad, you choose from who we give you" stage of the primary.
We need more laws to make 3rd parties viable. If I have to go through another Clinton/Trump type situation, it's really going to start killing any sort of desire to participate in the Presidential election process.... which is maybe the goal of the two parties? Just trade the White House between each other every 8 years?
Give me some more choices, please. Viable ones I can actually get excited about rather than throw my vote at because I hope their party will one day hit 5% so that they can get some proper funding/standing in the government's eyes.
Don't even get me started on Alaska GOP straight up cancelling their primary.
Ranked-choice/instant runoff voting. Solves the "spoiler effect" and makes third parties more viable.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
