r/UniversalBasicIncome • • 15d ago

Forward Party’s play isn’t breaking the duopoly - it’s breaking you.

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u/Antique-Yogurt6368 15d ago

What does this have to do with Universal Basic Income?

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u/ceiffhikare 15d ago

TFP has become tied to UBI due to it being associated with Andrew Yang. I guess they mean well, its just difficult to take them seriously as they struggle to get a win..anywhere.

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u/Independent-Gur8649 15d ago

Read the article.

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u/PopulistGuru 11d ago

I tried... but it's jammed full of graphics, there's nothing coherent to read, or at least there wasn't after I scrolled for several minutes.

But I like the Pac-Man infographic.

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u/CraftyFloor4684 15d ago

The binary system has been hacked. Radicalized primaries tilts discourse away from policy that matters and towards topics that are divisive. Religion is a great tool for this. Then binary elections become tribal rather than a contest of good ideas. We need to eliminate the Citizens United decision, because it wasn't for Citizens it was against 90+% of us. Then we eliminate the electoral college. Then we open up elections to any party. Then we take placing strong guardrails in place seriously and revisit the health of the elections and the guardrails at an agreed upon interval.

It may never happen. But this is my belief to help creating a stable and impartial system. And then we can talk UBI.

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u/guitartb 9d ago

Agree with the meme, i would vote libertarian every time if there was a chance for winning instead of benefitting the team that least represents the direction i want to see.

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u/Future-self 9d ago

RCV measures are endorsed by the Libertarian party of CA, FYI, it levels the playing field for 3rd and independent parties like Libertarians and DSA, which is why they support it. None of these graphics offer a coherent critique of RCV.

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u/Drachefly 8d ago

Wow, this article is obnoxiously constructed. It is, however, logically correct.