Comment by horsawlarway

3 days ago

I mean - as much as it's the "better" of the two options right now... the modern democratic party is still a center-right party controlled mostly by corporate interests and lobbying money.

They favor keeping the system that is producing rampant inequity stable. With a laissez faire approach to social issues.

As opposed to republicans, who favor socially regressive and oppressive policies, double speak, and who's mantra is mostly "Don't get caught. But if you do get caught - deny, deflect, denounce" rather than anything resembling ethical behavior.

Neither of them are particularly good options for governance. They have no motivations to "learn" anything.

One is a fast moving, malignant cancer - the other a slow moving auto-immune disease. Both kill the host.

We desperately need fresh air.

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MrDrMcCoy  2 days ago

We need to push for ranked choice voting. It's the best way out of this hole we've dug.

  • horsawlarway  2 days ago

    I generally agree with this.

    Personally, I'd also like to see party influence removed from elections. Completely removed at the time of actual election (ex - absolutely not allowed to list party on the ballot) but also reduced at the primary level (ex - no more closed primaries, maybe eliminate partisan primaries entirely).

    Politics isn't a team sport with winners and losers, and this attitude (especially concerning given the recent moves by republican leaders to explicitly disenfranchise and withhold support for locations that trend democratic) is utterly reprehensible (which is fairly in theme with their overall moral character).

    We're one nation. Politicians serve the populace, regardless of whether those people voted for them or not.