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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 218 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If all of the people who didn't vote because "It would never make a difference" actually voted, we could have had a constitutional amendment by now removing the electoral college.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Seriously

I love how the takeaway from this is “yeah fuck politics amirite” and not “dude it is THERE FOR THE TAKING for anyone who is inspiring enough to actually get people voting for them”*

(*and who feels like overcoming the significant hurdles of the media and the DNC cooperating to do their best to tank their campaign which they will definitely do if you are inspiring enough for people to want to vote for you)

THERE FOR THE TAKING I tell you

[–] grue 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what was that quiet bit in the middle? /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

democracy may not be available in all areas, ask your local TV conglomerate whether democracy is right for you

[–] Cosmonauticus 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nah. There's always going to be those, "They'll never win", "they're not a practical choice", "Voting third party is a waste" types.

Democrats and Republicans can only agree on one thing. They don't want more competition. I think that's why voter apathy is so bad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have a former roommate that her reason for not voting is that she doesn't think it effects her. She thinks she can live an apolitical life because she just doesn't want to deal with it. Meanwhile she can't afford anything because our state makes it really hard to get food stamps

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

voting third party will just split the vote for the side you want though (and thats a big problem when the opponent is literal evil or whatever, and the margins are so tight), we need to switch to a better voting system like ranked choice voting to allow more than 2 options.

[–] someguy3 26 points 5 months ago

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Has someone run on that platform before? Can't vote to change the system if no one is running (allowed to run) who plans to change the system.

[–] joostjakob 5 points 4 months ago

Just having the vote on a non working day or giving (almost) everyone obligatory paid leave that day is way easier and could already have quite an impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

well, no, not unless a politician introduced something like that