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The U.S. is a first past the post system. All you are suggesting is that whoever gets elected is still not the person most people want, except even less fairly.
Ok now I know you're intentionally being obtuse.
Read the fucking chain Sea Lion and quit arguing with a position you invented out of thin air.
Insulting me doesn't explain why your idea of a half dozen candidates in a first past the post system, meaning that a large majority of people don't get what they want, is better than what we have now.
BECAUSE I AM VERY OBVIOUSLY NOT TALKING ABOUT A FPTP SYSTEM YOU ILLITERATE COW!
READ THE DAMN CHAIN! I EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT STAR VOTING IN THE FUCKING CHAIN!
USE YOUR CONTEXT CLUES GODDAMN YOU!
Well since you only talked about getting rid of primaries and not also completely revamping the entire electoral system, I'm not sure what context clues I was supposed to use to know that.
... their first comment was saying they want an electoral system that doesn't need primaries, and their second talked about STAR voting. So while they were pretty confrontational about it, they did make it pretty clear that this is about the wider electoral process
How about the part where they started by saying "I’d rather an electoral system where primaries aren’t necessary" thus alluding to the fact that they want a different electoral system