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SubArcticTundra

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Yeah what is it with 2023 and enshittification? This has been such a bad year in general

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They only grow if you feed them. The food gets transformed into more baby.

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Agreed. The best thing is, only one state needs to adopt proportional representation for sending reps to Congress for it to have an impact. Even a small new party with a dozen seats is likely to be a tie breaker.

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It’s because the election system is First Past the Post. If they changed it to Ranked Choice Voting, all candidates from both primaries (plus independents) could run in the election and it would be up to the public to decide which of them is best, with their vote going to a fallback candidate if their favourite doesn’t win.

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The US sorely needs at least one state to adopt PR for sending Representatives to Washington.

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Very well argued. This is quite unrelated but just out of interest, how realistic do you see constitutional reform in the US? Because to me as an outsider, that seems to me to be what US politics sorely needs rn. Is there appetite for it among the electorate? Among the Dems? Could it be conceivably carried out?

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No but for now you are invited to !2visegrad4you@lemmy.ml

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Oh no, what a shame! I bet HP are so sorry to be sending that notification and wish they could hide it

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