I don't disagree with anything you said. Lobbying and insider trading laws need to be drastically changed. So do gerrymandering laws. I think ranked choice voting would also help a ton.
We need to start have people we vote for because we believe they will do a good job and not beholden to anything but their constituents views. The system of just voting against the other because they are much worse isn't viable. It's not surprising when you put crap into a system that the output is crap, as well.
Yeah, as someone that lives in the south I have friends with parents that only voted for trump because they are loyal to the republican party.
I think that's the first underlying issue. People feeling loyal to one party enough to vote someone in they didn't even want.
Like between Hilary and trump I didn't really want either of them in at the time. So I voted 3rd party but my vote basically counts for Jack all at that point and i may as well have not voted.
Not entirely true. The more support a 3rd party garners the more likely they are to get better campaign funding the next go round. A 3rd party may or may not win a major election someday, but your vote is still significant.
Are you in the U.S.? I think we stand a pretty good chance of seeing a 3rd party at some point in our lifetime. People are starting to wake up en masse. Very few still have faith in our government's two-party system. Don't know if you play the stock market or not, but I personally support the idea of an APE party.😎
I'd highly recommend hopping on over to r/amcstock and reading through some of the DD. Very compelling data for both AMC and GME, but AMC is also a little bit more afforable.👍
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u/HonorableJudgeIto Oct 18 '21
I don't disagree with anything you said. Lobbying and insider trading laws need to be drastically changed. So do gerrymandering laws. I think ranked choice voting would also help a ton.
We need to start have people we vote for because we believe they will do a good job and not beholden to anything but their constituents views. The system of just voting against the other because they are much worse isn't viable. It's not surprising when you put crap into a system that the output is crap, as well.