• Wrrzag@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I love how in the US getting Hitler elected would just be a matter of having a total of one worse person run for president. Then the Dems would be selling him as the saviour of the working class and minorities.

    “What? Third party? You might as well be voting for Hitl… Wait”

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      1 month ago

      Yeah. But that’s not them doing anything wrong lol.

      It’s the system. You have a electoral college majority vote system that only allows two parties because a third party would split the vote. As long as you have that one, it’s literally impossible for any third candidate to win, so it will just remove votes for the better option of the real possible one.

      Of course this is horrible and of course no-one likes it. But you have to change the underlying system in order to really get a viable alternative.

      Just saying “the system is bad (it is!!) so I won’t follow its rules and waste my vote” won’t help anybody. It will just allow the even worse option to flourish.

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        1 month ago

        How did Ross Perot run then? Clearly the System will allow for a third party it’s the people who have decided that they can’t.

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          1 month ago

          I’ll take “People arguing with comments they didn’t understand” for $500, Alex.

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          Ross Perot did literally get zero electoral college votes. Any vote given to him was an absolutely wasted vote.

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      1 month ago

      It’s funny that the Nazi Party was literally the National Socialist Party Of The German Worker.

      Of course they were neither Socialist (quite the opposite) nor stood for workers (quite the opposite).

      I describe it as “funny” because in the US, the Democrats, whose President has literary said he is a Zionist (I.e. a supporter of the latest variant of the Nazi ideology) operate almost entirely based on the very same principle of claiming to be one thing whilst acting as the opposite.

      The very field that allowed Trump to rise with his hypocrite populist speech has long been plowed and fertilized by Democrats relying on sleazy lies and half-truths and turning the Press into their Propaganda Spokesperson to get away with representing their voters less and less: people stopped trusting a certain kind of slick stories and a certain Press promoting misleading statements and deceitful portrayals in a serious tone, which openned the door for the actors politicians doing populist strongmen acts and spewing outright but short and simple lies.

      Today’s American Political Landscape is a field plowed and sowed by Democrats and harvested by Republicans.