Ranked choice voting is a way to rig elections and a system voters do not understand

As for the parties changing, they really haven't, Democrats still support racist alternative action programs that hire based on skin color and Republicans still push for equality of oppurtunity, while you push for equality of outcome.

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@VulcanMan6 from Kansas commented…11mos11MO

Why would ranked-choice be a complicated system of voting? Many nations already implement this voting method into their elections, so it's not even anything new or radical. It literally just means you rank all the candidates based on which one(s) you like most, instead of voting for a single person and having all of the problems we currently have.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure @5K2PZRB is referring to the party switch, which happened gradually throughout the 20th century, largely surrounding FDR and the Civil Rights Movement against the Republican "southern strategy". It was… Read more a pretty integral part of US history, so I'm surprised you don't know about it.

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@TruthHurts101 from Washington disagreed…11mos11MO

Ranked-choice voting being implemented in Alaska, as a system voters do not understand, significantly swung the political pendulum to the Democrats. Why would we change a system that Americans have used and understood perfectly for 250 years?

Secondly, the party switch theory is a tool left-wing myth -- completely false and ungrounded in reality. Lincoln was openly admiring of the Constitution and Founding Fathers whereas FDR was openly scornful of them. There were a few Republicans who opposed Civil Rights but there were way more Democrats, such as the segregationist Joe Biden, who was openly… Read more admiring of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and a ferocious racist.

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@VulcanMan6 from Kansas commented…11mos11MO

Why do you insist that it's so difficult to understand? It's literally in the name: ranked choice...you just rank your choices. It's not complicated at all.

And you understand why it swung Democrat, right? Because our currently flawed voting system is designed to maintain the Republican Party; without it, they wouldn't hold as significant of power as they do now. Without the electoral college, Republicans lose; without gerrymandering, Republicans lose; without single-vote plurality voting, Republicans lose; etc. The reason our current, terrible system is maintained the way… Read more it is is because it's the only thing keeping Republicans in power. Under our First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system, voters are only allowed to cast a single vote per position, which fundamentally creates a two-party duopoly like what we have today. Our system disincentivizes third parties due to the spoiler effect, thus further reducing representative proportionality, and encourages dishonest tactical voting (such as voting for candidates you don't even like just so the other party's candidate doesn't win, as seen in the last several US elections). It is historically one of the worst systems of voting nowadays, as it was only originally used for it's simplicity in pre-technological times, and is only still in use for the sake of maintaining our corrupt party duopoly.

Secondly, the party switch is a well-documented event throughout 20th century US history/politics. In fact, it can be easily seen visually by simply looking through the voting maps over the last hundred years, as the historically red and blue states gradually switched to the opposite parties. In the early 1900s, both the Republican and Democrat Parties were not that different from each other, and it was common for politicians to flip flop between the two, until after the Great Depression, when the southern Democrat's more Liberal president FDR passed the New Deal to help pull us out of our bad situation, which prompted the northern Republicans to take a more conservative approach to separate their ideologies. This escalated until the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s, when Democrat president LBJ passed the Civil Rights Acts. This caused the racial tensions within the Democratic Party to snap, in which the pro-Civil Rights voters/politicians stayed with the Democrats, and the anti-Civil Rights voters/politicians (most of which were in the southern Jim Crow states) left to form the Dixiecrat Party, which was incredibly supported by the KKK and white supremacists who were against racial equality. The Republicans came up with a strategy to draw in as many of the southern Dixiecrat voters as possible into the now-conservative Republican Party, by using their anti-Civil Rights policies and "state's rights" rhetoric, called the Southern Strategy, which ended up successfully absorbing the Dixiecrat Party into the Republican base (which is also why the KKK and white supremacist groups today overwhelmingly support and endorse the Republican Party). This was the fundamental "party switch" until it was finally cemented by the neoliberal conservative Reagan administration, which began the modern duopoly we have today.

Granted, I hate both the Democratic and Republican Parties, and they both engage in ridiculous identity politics instead of actual class issues that advance the material conditions of the people.

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@TruthHurts101 from Washington disagreed…11mos11MO

State's Rights is not inherently opposed to Civil Rights -- in fact the very reverse is true. Yet another example of how you haven't the foggiest idea about our history. State's Rights was used as an argument AGAINST slavery and the fugitive slave act, which forced states to turn in runaways, and State's Rights was used to abolish slavery in the North. I have also studied the U.S. presidential elections immensely and I am absolutely certain your party switch theory is false.

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@VulcanMan6 from Kansas commented…11mos11MO

Correct, state's rights are not inherently opposed to Civil Rights; however, they were absolutely used that way during the southern strategy. Many southern states used the "state's rights" idea to defend the use of Jim Crow policies and segregation throughout the South during those times (similar to how it was used in the South's attempts to not have to give up slaves), just as the "state's rights" argument is also being used today to push against individual rights like abortion or gender-affirming procedures within many Republican states.

But yes, you… Read more're right that states' rights are not inherently opposed to civil rights, such as the Fugitive Slave Act, in which it was vehemently opposed by Northern States, and supported by the South. Yet, at the same time, the South pushed for their states' right to choose to preserve slavery when the Northern abolitionists wanted to abolish it nationally (which it eventually was, luckily). It can obviously be used both ways, you just have to look at the context.

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@CaucusCalculatorDemocratfrom New York requested a reference…11mos11MO

Please provide a reference for:

“Joe Biden, who was openly admiring of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and a ferocious racist”

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@TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…11mos11MO

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/07/03/watch-joe-biden-call-kkk-member-and-democrat-robert-byrd-a-friend-and-mentor-n2571780 there's the reference. Check it out. There you go. Enjoy!

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@CaucusCalculatorDemocratfrom New York commented…11mos11MO

Thank you

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@ar_alan from Pennsylvania commented…11mos11MO

It's essential to distinguish between policies that promote equal opportunity and those that enforce equal outcomes. Equality of opportunity allows all individuals to have a fair shot at success, while equality of outcome seeks to level the playing field by redistributing resources. As for taxation and wealth redistribution, it's important to remember that taxes are necessary for providing essential public services like education, healthcare, and infrastructure. While we may disagree on the ideal tax rates or how best to allocate those resources, the concept of taxation isn't… Read more inherently opposed to capitalism. In fact, it can help ensure a healthy and thriving market by promoting social stability and economic mobility. In conclusion, it's important to have open and honest discussions about our political system and the ideologies that drive it. By considering alternative voting systems and examining the historical context of party platforms, we can work towards a more informed and balanced understanding of our political landscape.

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