Full title: 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, and treason.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    They don’t have preferential voting in the US so they’re effectively limited to two parties

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      13 days ago

      Way worse, they are limited to two parties with the electoral collage system. Not just effectively but in law and policy.

      Its not a functioning democracy.

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          13 days ago

          Getting votes and getting power are not the same thing. There is no path to president for any party outside of rebpublican or democrats. The electoral college of the states stops any 3rd party from holding any power at a federal level. The last time there was even a chance was the bull moose party and even Teddy at the hight of his popularity could not overcome the two party system back then, and they have since tightened the system down.

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            13 days ago

            I’m gonna need you to point out very specifically what law prevents the libertarians from gaining power and presidency if they get enough votes. I don’t see how the electoral college stops them, or any third party, gaining power with enough votes

                • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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                  12 days ago

                  Such as the electoral college. On its own it doesn’t strictly stop anyone, but it increases the barrier to entry.

                  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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                    12 days ago

                    It does directly stop though, depending on the state they by law can only send a rep to vote for one of the two established parties. If the person that is asking for the direct wording on a exact law (as some sort of gotcha I assume) is an american then they are truly fucked in the nation. The average voter does not even know how undemocratic their own system is.

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      13 days ago

      But if 92% are seriously affected I would assume that some people could found a single topic party and that they would be elected immediately.

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        12 days ago

        Oh this is just one of many issues for which the public disagrees with the politicians. They do not work for us in the slightest. They work for the rich. This has been a known fact for decades. Even the supposedly good politicians capitulate for unity and soften “eat the rich” to “tax the rich”.

        Now they’re just seeing how hard they can push before people fight back. With any luck, they’re just as stupid as the voting public.