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Cruiser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> As a liberal collecting as much money as possible for myself, why should I bother <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/savingMaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>savingMaga</span></a> 🫣 <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/doomed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doomed</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/twoPartySystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twoPartySystem</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.unboiled.info/users/monk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>monk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> </p><p>Americans do not choose to have only two parties. Our PACs, media, and billionaires choose that for us. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CitizenUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenUnited</span></a> cements the fact that our choices are binary. </p><p>A few places (such as in Alaska) are allowing <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RankedChoiceVoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RankedChoiceVoting</span></a> as a path for other parties, but in the end (even there)... We are still dominated by the two parties.</p><p>Long, expensive campaigns for Congress and the WH mean that big money needs to back candidates. Big money means one of the two major parties MUST back you financially.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThirdParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdParty</span></a> candidates have almost always been spoilers for the Democrats' success and helped Republicans. </p><p>Tell us how to get corruption, big money and billionaires out of our system, and how to convince our corrupt politicians to get rid of the same <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CitizensUnited</span></a> that profitd them... THEN maybe we could have more parties.</p><p>Until such time as we can magically make that happen, we will have only two choices.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TwoPartySystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwoPartySystem</span></a></p>
Steve Geee 🤘<p>Since moving the US, am I the only one that sees voting strategy as more of an effort to &quot;own the libs&quot; or vice versa, rather than voting for policy? Holy shit this country is intense.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/usPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>usPol</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TwoPartySystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoPartySystem</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UsVsThem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UsVsThem</span></a></p>