(09-20-2020, 04:00 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(09-19-2020, 08:40 PM)mikesez Wrote: So what can we do?

That's what I'm trying to tell you. There is nothing we can do. Voters got us into this position. The public elected very divisive figures figures into the office of President like Obama and now a reality star with a narcissistic personality disorder. On top of that, we've kept elected officials in there offices entirely too long with no accountability. The longer they are in, the more corrupt they get. It created the perfect storm. Personally, I feel as though we are well on our way to democracy being toppled in the United States and voters have no one but themselves to blame. All those people out there who voted for candidates based on party without knowing a single thing about them, have ruined what we once had and I fear there is no turning back. When things get really bad though, (trust me, they can get waaaaaaay worse,) the people that got us into this situation will be the ones that complain the loudest.

They're voters, and we're voters. All we have to do is persuade or discourage until people who think like us outnumber people who think like them.. I didn't say it wouldn't be hard. I do think changing the rules of elections would help a lot. Going to approval voting, or ranked choice voting, would help a lot, so we don't have voters feeling like they're stuck voting for the least of two evils.

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