- this is a meta-commentary post about a prevailing sentiment that results in spam in this community.
- i support ranked choice voting/STAR voting. and you should too!
- go to https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-legislation/ to learn more and find legislation you can campaign for in your region.
but i swear by this point, we know. we are aware. the same point doesn’t need to be spammed every 3 comments. if it was as easy to overcome as copypasting the same four paragraphs every post, we’d have thrown off this oppression by now.
this wouldn’t be a problem if the spam wasn’t inserted into the most irrelevant of spaces. people are dying, their rights are being stripped. and yes, RCV would help this but politics is about working within the confines of current reality, not a hypothetical scenario where we fixed things 6 years ago.
just cool it with the spam. engage with each other as humans, not concepts to be dealt with.
Except in my version of this the darkest timeline; the masses will not understand anything other than FPTP as complexities scare them in to irrational fear
Same thing used to be true of social security, black people being allowed to vote, weed being legal, and lots of other things, until things changed
There are already places that use IRV in the US and there has never been a significant issue with this. IRV is certainly better than what we have, but for my money, I think STAR is the way to go, there's still issues with strategic voting in IRV with situations that make good-faith votes hurt the voter, but it's still a lot better than the circus we have now.
We are in this darkest timeline. I was speaking to an older family member who lives in Alaska where RCV exists and she kept saying that it wasn't a fair system because "they just change your vote to someone you didn't vote for."