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Europe’s Greens ask Jill Stein to pull out of US election to prevent Trump victory
(www.politico.eu)
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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I think from a third party point of view that makes no sense. It's not for her to prop up the broken electoral system. Harris is essentially the lesser evil in this argument, but the real problem is the electoral system.
Arguably the "better" outcome for third parties is for Harris to win the popular vote and lose the election because of the stupid electoral college system. That may actually get Democrats more serious about electoral reform which would benefit everyone. They've already lost twice despite winning the popular vote (Gore and H Clinton). Yet they continue to support broken electoral systems across the country at national and state level as all they care about is Dem vs Rep. Not actual democracy.
The Democrats didn't even have a proper primary contest in this election, they value democracy so little. They tried to forced Biden on the party and voters and it blew up spectacularly. The party needs a shake up and frankly losing may be better for them than Harris saving them from the party's own disastrous mismanagement.
I'm no fan of trump, but Americas problems run far deeper and are far more systemic than one election.
So voting for a hand puppet with no serious program, credentials, infrastructure to govern is better? Stein has no ambitions to make american do anything better, else she would be front and center actually doing something between election cycles.. but she does not. If anything you have more risks, cause in the case she would magically win, who would become het cabinet? You have no clue who and what they stand for.... And that should worry you ... A lot.
The electoral system will be fixed if Trump wins. He will just dissolve it and end the election process. Voila! Reform!
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and giving trump his seat back is only going to deepen them
While the electoral college is problematic, it isn’t relevant in this regard. First past the post is the issue.
FPTP plus winner-take-all. WTA needs to go away at the same time FPTP does.
If you're an internet rando, and don't understand the broken game theory behind FPTP, then you're an idiot. It's obvious!
If you're a candidate, and don't understand the broken game theory behind FPTP, then that's fine, you're not playing dumb or anything. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and go kick that football.