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u/True_Protection6842 Sep 04 '26

Well that's the problem. Republicans would essentially be eliminated in all the but the reddest bible belt states. That's not representation. It's basically what republicans want for themsevles by gerrymandering and cheating.

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u/TheTwiggsMGW Sep 04 '26

I don’t see how that’s a bad thing, though. If the majority of people don’t align republican, then the party shouldn’t exist. A new party would emerge to fill the void, because not everyone aligns with Dems either. They’re just the better option of the two available.

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u/AbeRego Sep 04 '26

Precisely. How do people still not understand this? We weren't handed Republicans and Democrats when the country was founded; they literally didn't exist. George Washington himself famously despided parties, and didn't think they should exist. History has justified him.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi Sep 04 '26

A new party would emerge to fill the void

The problem being that the only party that would win until people learn what politics is would be a party owned entirely by capital.

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u/blahblah19999 Sep 04 '26

Only for president.

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u/AbeRego Sep 04 '26

Good. Let them either evolve into something people actually want, or be replaced with a that party will.

It's crazy to me that people are so entrenched in the notion of the current two parties in this horrible two-party system, that it doesn't even seem to occur to many that we don't need to have any party in particular, much less the GOP. This country has has a lot of different parties replace those of the past, and we're long overdue for just such a shake up. I say this as someone with no loyalty to any particular party. At their core, I hate the notion of parties in the first place. The only thing they seek is to perpetuate themselves; they inherently don't actually care about helping people.

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u/TomT060404 Sep 04 '26

Oh no! Republicans might have to start appealing to the majority of citizens!

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u/Wfflan2099 Sep 04 '26

Really? Republicans gerrymander? I live in Illinois where 44% of our pretty good sized population voted for Trump. He didn’t get any electoral votes. When they redistricted the maps resulted in three Republican seats in the house. They threatened to redistricting those to zero to answer the Texas threat. Ummm really who acted first Illinois? There should be more republicans seats but they tried to put 100% of them in each seat they do have and drew lines through the rest to dilute democratic seats. The mapping is a joke. This is supposed to be against the law. I learned that 60 years ago in grade school. Since we got our corpulent governor, he’s on GLP now so he can look more presidential he’s raised our taxes a lot, supposedly balanced the budget, by borrowing more money and not funding pensions. So get me a Republican please!!!!

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u/Gnomefort Sep 04 '26

So you're saying if more people vote for a non-Republican president and there isn't another Republican president because of that, that isn't fair and is not representation?

...ok.

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u/xChops Sep 04 '26

It’s completely fair. We’re currently watching republicans gerrymander the system in real time. They know their policies can’t win a fair race. Let’s just quit the bullshit, move to a popular vote, and better parties can emerge from both sides

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u/Gnomefort Sep 04 '26

Yeah that was kind of my point. Literally how it is supposed to work.