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Hot take: political pluralism is good actually

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[-] UnixSlvt42@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Well how are we supposed to get the proportional representation without the pluralism? If everybody consolidates into a single tent what incentive is there for reform? Fusion voting was legal in many states not that long ago.

[-] Truscape 13 points 1 week ago

At the state level I could see it happening, but unless the action is possible at the federal level, any presented candidate becomes a minor spoiler candidate for any active reformists.

This is largely a "system is broken, but in order to remove the limitations we need to work inside the system" problem, which I'm aware is frustrating as all hell. As it stands, we still need to consolidate our votes behind one of the two parties to make change because of political structure - and attempting to usurp it from the outside will always fail.

[-] UnixSlvt42@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

People have been saying this for decades and it's gotten us nowhere so...

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

This is largely a "system is broken, but in order to remove the limitations we need to work inside the system"

The second half of that statement isn't really true. You can get a lot done with a general strike.

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