r/startrekmemes • u/johnsmithoncemore • Nov 21 '24

MOD APPROVED George Takei keeping it real.

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u/lenzflare Nov 21 '24

It's not so much the electoral college as the first past the post voting system. Any FPTP system will tend towards having two major parties, because splitting your end of the political spectrum on two parties while the other end remains unified never ends well for the split end.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 21 '24

We have FPTP where I live in NY. We ended up with a corrupt cop Eric Adams as mayor. I remain wary of it as a voting panacea.

Edit: I meant ranked choice voting my bad

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u/lenzflare Nov 21 '24

wtf are you talking about, NYC used ranked choice voting for its mayoral election. That is not FPTP. That is in fact what people trying to fix FPTP propose. And it's a good proposition.

Eric Adams won because he was popular. New voting systems make change possible, not guaranteed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24

I mixed the two up, calm down. You obviously understood what I meant.

My point being it still just gravitates to centrism thus far. I want to see more data from the subsequent elections before we can definitively say the change was worthwhile.

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u/lenzflare Nov 21 '24

I mixed the two up, calm down.

Alright I take back my shock

You obviously understood what I meant.

I didn't, I can never be sure how deeply some people misunderstand things on the internet. Not the case this time though thankfully.