• Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    And there is no political leverage the proletariat has to push for policy change after the election. The pressure came from “do what we say or at election time we vote for someone else”

    Well, every fucking election when it comes time to follow through after they again failed to hold up their end of the bargain the majority gets cold feet and caves to familiarity because risking change is scary.

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      28 days ago

      You’re not wrong.

      That’s why 99% of voters pick the same two shitty parties that are driving them to the brink of homelessness.

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        28 days ago

        At this point, we get to make a lengthy explanation about First Past the Post always leading to a 2 party system because of the spoiler effect, we get to a lengthy history explanation about how the (at the time) progressive republican party won the election with Abraham Lincoln because the (at the time) conservative Democrat party split into Dixiecrats in favor of slavery and northern Democrats who didn’t care either way and the Whig party just up and died in 1850 and that’s the only way a 3rd party becomes viable in FPTP. And then we just argue back and forth of “well if people just spontaneously saw things the way I do they would vote third party too!” to “That’s not how reality works.”

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          28 days ago

          “That’s not how reality works.”

          People know how reality works. That’s why 10,000,000 fewer people voted this election.