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Fighting Oligarchy Tour!!! (i.redd.it)

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Originally Posted By u/Brian_Ghoshery At 2025-03-22 03:17:31 AM | Source

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is my absolute ideal too, but I worry that it would only take voters away from democrats thus leaving Republicans with a majority. Ranked choice voting is an obvious answer, but what else can we do?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Democrats are already losing to obvious fascists. What would splitting the vote do that hasn't already happened?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Split it faster and make it even harder to regain those votes, leaving the field open to the fascists who stick together.

Under an FPtP system, starting a new party is only a benefit if they can take basically all of the Democrat votes with them and encourage a good percentage of those who didn't vote to vote for them. Many elections have been pretty tight, so even a small reduction in the Democrat vote risks just handing those to the republicans.