American Politics is a JOKE (Part 2)
The whole American election is rigged in three ways. The first is how we vote, second being the power of votes per state, and the forced duopoly third parties will NEVER break. So, let’s jump in to these reasons.
How We Vote Sucks
Every voting system in some way or another is problematic. But we COULD fix at least some issues in the political systems by introducing different methods of voting, and changing some fundamental issues. First, we need to introduce RCV, which while it won’t solve the duopoly problem, it will help it a little bit. Secondly we need to introduce different polling and voting systems. Instead of running these broken down systems that don’t work, we need to keep our systems up-to-date. We also need to introduce faster and more fraud-fighting ways to deal with ballots that has to be quicker and safer. While these two things WON’T solve everything, these are objectively better ideas we need to implement.
We also need to do one last thing. Instead winner takes all the electoral votes per state, the votes should be proportional to the STATES vote. Let’s say in Colorado. Trump got 41% of the vote, and Biden got 55%. With 9 Electoral College Votes, 5 of them go to Biden, and 4 to Trump. This keeps Coloradan voices heard, while also making the system more representative to the final count. This can also allow for third parties to take Electoral College wins, even small ones. While this won’t solve the issues still, it makes it more fair for Americans, and more voices are heard.
The Power Of States
I hear this idea from conservatives and libertarians alike. “Ohhh the big blue states like California control us!” No, they don’t. Firstly, because of our broken Electoral College “balancing” with the extra two votes per state give smaller states an unfair advantage. “Oh but the smaller states voices matter!” They do, but a president which not even a quarter of the population agrees with should not be president. This is a very real and possible scenario. The balance of states should be dealt with fairly by the population.
These kinds of unbalance are what give people anger about our “democracy.” This system actually hurts EVERYONE. While mostly the Democrats (and third parties) do get most of the hurt from this, Republicans also get some pain from the fact as states get bigger, they become more blue, meaning Democrats get more electoral college votes over all. First, simply remove the two extra votes, and this helps us all.
The Duopoly Stands
As a third-party lover (personally Green party), I have to say it’s going to be difficult to break the duopoly system without pushing strict election laws into place. Basically make the Libertarians and the Libertarian-leftists (Greens) go against their own volitions and fight to somewhat HURT democracy overall to help democracy.
The problem here isn’t the size of parties, it’s their powers. And with political parties like Libertarians not running ads with < 3% of the voters, and very few offices, they cannot fight without money. I know 100% the Libertarians and Greens can run campaign ads, but they don’t. But they need to run ads if they want any chance what-so-ever to win any offices. The goal needs to be to advertise, and change the election laws to fight the duopoly as best as they can. I am not sure how they will finish that, but I do know it starts with advertising.
