Discussion
OK, person who just yelled at me for encouraging voting, because you say the candates who win aren't always perfect, I suspect you either:
* don't actually care at all who runs US government
-or-
* DO care, but want policies that are the opposite of what you claim.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's the second one.
@mattblaze I will never cease to be amazed by the military-grade solipsism of people who fail to grasp that politics and elections are *collective* undertakings and that, barring some sort of weird identical-twin convergence, no set of two or more people will agree about everything.
People who argue against voting seem to be everywhere at the moment. I recently unfollowed two of them.
I'm sorry you got caught at the sharp end.
@CppGuy I mean, convince people whose politics are opposed to yours not to vote is a pretty good strategy, I suppose.
Anyway, US democracy is far from perfect, but I doubt very much that having freer and fairer elections would somehow make it worse.
@mattblaze We can’t get better than the electorate chooses. Let’s try to approach that limit as closely as we can.
@mattblaze Is it some purity thing?
"I maintain my purity by not voting for the least worst candidate?".
Personally a reason why I like STV, I got to vote 1 for a really cool clown for mayor (clearly actually quite a sharp chap), the frustratingly centrist somewhere in the middle and still put the loonies last.