The comments are even worse. The fact this rhetoric made it even there genuinely makes me feels terrible. Are even other transfems this liberal or is this fed work?

  • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    4 months ago

    It’s not that we don’t like it, it’s that improving the voting system would make things better only if the system is genuinely democratic, which the liberal “democratic” systems like that of the US aren’t. As long as the system is rigged to make sure only candidates that the bourgeoisie like can ever win even the best voting system in the world would hardly make things any better.

    It’s also not the case that all choices are systematically the same, in different countries at different points in time voting in bourgeois elections is sometimes useful, but in the specific case of the 21st century united states it is not.

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      Just realised that the last part I said didnt make sense. The reason people like that is that you can vote for who you really want to vote for instead of the lesser evil without risking the greater evil winning

      Anyways for the sake of intrigue, can you expand how the system is rigged? Is it just the unlimited campaign financing and legal bribes of US or is there more to it?

      • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        4 months ago

        Well for starters there is a fee to present yourself to an election so from the get go not everyone can be a candidate, you need to have access to a certain amount of wealth.

        There is also the fact that money has clearly a very important effect on the result since roughly 90% of the time the winner of an election is the candidate who spend the most on their campaign, this is the case for both the house and the senate.

        There is also as you cited capital financing and legal bribes such as lobbying.

        The results are also indirectly manipulated by changes on how the votes are counted, for example, if you pick the winner of the election district-by-district, the results may change depending on how you draw the frontiers of the districts, this practice is called gerrymandering. There can also be restrictions on who can vote (age restrictions or race or by removing your right to vote for life if you commit a fellony for example), the elections can be held a during a working day on purpose so that peoples who can’t take time of to go vote don’t have a say, etc…

        A good video on the subject

        Ha, and of course, there is no way the bourgeoisie is going to let us replace the current voting system with something that represent the peoples better so implementing ranked voting or any other voting system is but a pipe dream as long as they are in control anyway.