• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who is this article for?

    It doesn’t address the real problem here: That first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.

    Because fptp is garbage, third parties are little more than a method to undermine a candidates opposition (in the US in 2024 the green party is ironically propped up in part by the republican party)

    By leaving out fptp it just sounds like anti democracy drivel.

    • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.

      The Democratic Party would rather lose to the Republican Party than change the rules to allow for a multi-party system.

      That aside, the major parties don’t want to reform the system they have because it’s worked very well for them. Our parties are incredibly old by world standards. The Democrats have been around since the 18th century, and the Republicans have been around since the 1850s.