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We don't have a true democracy and never have. If we did, Trump and Bush II would never have become president as neither received as many votes as their opponents.
Second, any speculative changes on a macro level require either violence on a revolutionary scale or for 49% of voters to pull the lever for a third party instead of Democrats or Republicans.
I think it's more likely WWIII will disrupt America's politics before we have another revolution, and I know full well that our partisans are too well-programmed to pull the lever for anyone other than Democrats and Republicans, so I don't anticipate any meaningful positive change in the near future.
I voted 3rd party in 2016, because fuck the 2- party system. I'll do it again once we get ranked-choice voting, but not before.
Your vote is your right to do with as you please, but this is the thinking that's set us inevitably on the 44-year path to fascism.
I don't follow this, how has this person voting 3rd party in 2016 led to facism starting in the 80s? For that matter, how has 3rd party voting led to facism at all? I'm very much struggling to make sense of this.
That's not what I'm saying, but I'll clarify.
It's people who vote Red or Blue regardless of the quality of candidate that have set us on the path to fascism, and the fact that they've done so for the last 44 years despite the monumental failures of the ruling parties, culminating in two obviously cognitively impaired candidates in 2024.