• WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Didn’t the Democratic Party crush any hope of RCV even when it passes on the ballot? I mean i expect that from republicans, but it seems it is a rare bipartisan effort to prevent it from ever happening.

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      4 months ago

      Why would they want RCV to happen?

      In it’s current state neither party has accountability from their own voters.

      They can literally do anything they want, raise billions of dollars and be practically free from any accountability because the parties aren’t officially government agencies.

      When corruption happens at the party level, it’s literally “totally legal, and totally cool”.

      The people who would rise to power in such a system, will never give it up it willingly. And anyone that isn’t corrupt, faces near impossible odds.

      Look at AIPAC just dropping 15 million on a House seat primary. How are voters supposed to compete in a primary like that, and what are they supposed to do in a general?

      Not vote Dem so the Republican that also takes AIPAC money wins? They’re not even the only ones doing it, they’re just the ones paying the most openly.

      Our system is fucked and we can’t keep waiting “one more election” to openly acknowledge it.