"All progress depends on the unreasonable man", by definition a minority.

Not only progress, sadly, but almost any change. Those who care are few and far between, and this is why they wield outsized power.

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tstrimple 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The largest voting group in the US are non-voters. As bad as conservatives are, the non-voters are complicit in letting it happen. Hope they enjoy their taste of "both sides are the same".

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nine_k 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The US political system badly needs a reasonable third side. Both sides have gone really bad, and arguably lost their contact with the majority of voters.

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komali2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Completely agree since both sides in the USA is two conservative parties. Luckily there seems to be an actual opposition finally arriving in the form of the Social Democrats.

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tstrimple 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fundamentals of the electoral system make this almost impossible. See spoiler effects where your campaign and your next closest competitor are split, and your polar opposite claims the win. The majority wanted one of the two more popular options, but the person with only a fraction of overall support gets the win. There are plenty of better voting systems but entrenched powers and "American Exceptionalism" means nothing will ever change.

I'd love to abandon the Democratic party. They have proven themselves to be useless in all the decades of my voting life. But they aren't blatantly evil and corrupt like Republicans. Democrats are at best a feeble foil to Republican bullshit, but they are literally the only foil that exists to choose from.

	▲	nine_k 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. A third party would only be possible by altering the system, ideally by introduction of preferential voting.

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lingrush4 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	gmd63 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, the only time I've seen the government standing up for feds killing white Americans was under Republican leadership over the last few weeks.