r/Political_Revolution • u/Miserable-Lizard • Nov 08 '24

Article An Anti-Trump protest in Chicago.

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u/kjm16 Nov 08 '24

Why isn't there more effort to bring attention to the fact that we need a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college? People everywhere wouldn't have an excuse to be apathetic if every vote did matter.

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u/Kyrthis Nov 09 '24

Dude: he won the popular vote. That would not have changed anything. I mean, maybe, it would have resulted in a Clinton presidency, or even a Gore one. But, we’re talking about the future, and the future is voter turnout for the Dems.

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u/Dralex75 Nov 09 '24

Until we kill FPTP and get something like STAR voting we can never have more than 2 parties. And we will always be stuck with this mess.

We desperately need more than two voices in the room.

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u/Rasalom Nov 09 '24

*Two handpuppets with the same voice.