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Oh, then by all means. Maybe show up to a Democratic primary once in a while and you’ll get your chance.
Friend, what a pointless waste of time with the uniparty, they will do whatever is needed to manipulate away any real change
If you’re honestly expecting a three-party system to emerge from FPTP, you need to work on your mathematics.
Liberals : "Play my rigged game"
Communists : "no"
Liberals : 😭😭😭
I don’t care if you play. I’m merely saying how continuing to do nothing is pointless. Good luck complaining the government out of power.
All meaningful positive change in the US happened outside of the theatre piece of electoral politics. These include:
US electoralism is a distracting theatre piece, where both sides act as capitalist puppets. All positive change comes in spite of that system, when ppl start organizing outside of it.
Why must it be one or the other? Do you really believe the best strategy is to focus all of your efforts in one direction?
Because it accomplishes nothing. It's not good strategy to play a rigged game, where acheivements were only made when people refused to play it, and went around it.
You've given me no reason to play your rigged game.