r/PoliticalRevolutionWI • u/SymbioticPatriotic • Oct 26 '18
Tiffany Anderson: I am the progressive Wisconsin needs as lieutenant governor (Madison.ocm)
https://madison.com/ct/tiffany-anderson-i-am-the-progressive-wisconsin-needs-as-lieutenant/article_5bd43473-ba51-5512-9eaf-23aca6622545.html
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u/LiberalArtsAndCrafts Oct 26 '18
You write this whole article and you only mention non specific "electoral reform" in passing?
GTFO.
If you want third parties with any real shot at winning, then you need to pass voting system reform first. If I can only vote for one person, then it's going to be someone who can actually win, to prevent someone truly awful from winning. So long as we have FPTP, you're a spoiler, and you're not even using your platform to spread knowledge of electoral reforms like STAR Voting and why they matter. This should be front and center on every single third party candidates platform, it should be mentioned in every interview you can get, you should be hosting parties where your supporters call candidates and representatives asking them about their stance on voting system reform. You should be getting volunteers to canvass asking people if they know about voting system reform and why it matters, and gathering signatures to get it passed for some local elections, you should be making signs and attending rallies for Democratic and Republican candidates to spread the word among their supporters. Thinking that in one election you'll move from getting 0-3% to getting 35%+ and somehow beat both major parties is a total pipe dream, and if you perform incredibly well, getting 5-10% of the vote, all you'll accomplish is more Republican rule, which does far FAR more harm to the environment, and civil rights, and the economic prospects of marginalized people, than the small extra boost of publicity such a failed run would achieve, and next election, everyone burned by voting for a candidate that ultimately just spoiled the election for the better major party candidate will once again abandon you to vote for Dems. So start pushing, every day, for voting system reform or I'll continue dismissing you as either actively opposing the policies you claim to champion, or just too blind to see the effect you'll have.