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What era in time do these people think R's are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure, that's because there are other factors at play. But FPTP is one of the biggest factors, a

I don't agree Australia has "ranked choice" and we have two big parties dominant. It's not a FPTP, it's voters.

Paraphrasing Susan Sontag, 10% of voters are good, 10% evil and 80% can be swayed either way, of that 80% many of us are stupid (in the Cippola sense).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Ranked choice is basically FPTP with simulated rounds. It's not much better than FPTP. Switching from one bad voting system to a marginally better one isn't going to fix things.