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2 years agoThe rest of the US doesn’t deserve California’s economy
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45·2 years agoIt’s worse than not voting. Because of the Spoiler Effect, voting 3rd party actually helps your least favorite major candidate.
Unfortunately, the US’s winner-takes-all voting system makes it so that your (entirely reasonable and otherwise simply correct) mindset leads to what’s called the Spoiler Effect, where a third party vote actually just ends up helping your least favorites. Because of this, the winner-takes-all system inevitably leads to two dominant parties, and being forced to vote for the shiniest of two turds. To fix this, we just need a different voting system. I’m partial to approval voting, but more likely that’d be ranked choice.
10th Doctor: “Doesn’t he look tired?”
“The Big Lie”
Can we fucking not?
Look up the spoiler effect to learn why they don’t.