that Electrical College keeps that Duopoly entrenched
Voters= partisans do that on their own- there are options- the Electoral College is not at fault, nor is the system- the Electoral College is "representative" voting, which what a republic has- the fault, if fault is to be assigned is, Public Education- proper education is a requirement for thinking things through- partisans act as acolytes and that is, regurgitating, praising, worshipping, i.e., brain washed by answers being given by authority figures and carried over into adulthood- authority figures love to act as authoritarians and act they do-
Add to the above. There is no quick fix- we are living the results of improper education mandated for a few generations and several decades- generations/decades are time consuming- it is a building process, or reaping the fruits of seeds sown- seeds were sown, we are reaping the harvest-
Oh no you don't. This is like my local grocery store manager who stocks his shelves in chaos and when I point it out he tries to blame the customers. Nobody in your lifetime or mine has seen a POTUS election that wasn't a Hobson's Choice of "Bad" or "Worse", i.e. the lesser of two evils. And the Electoral College with its fucked-up WTA system
ensures that those are our only two choices because --- again ---- you can vote with your "red" or "blue" state, you can vote against it, you can vote third party, and NONE of those have any effect on the outcome. Therefore your only option, and mine, is to vote not "for" one candy but to BLOCK the other. "I don't like the (red) but (the blue) would be even worse".
And that is the work of the Electoral College.
Ross Perot was the choice of nearly a fifth of the national vote in 1992. How many electors did he get? A quarter? An eighth? A sixty-fourth? Nope, he got ZERO. And that's what you get when you try to crack the Duopoly, courtesy of the shockingly absurd Electrical College.
When you have a single party that dresses up alternately in red and blue pretending to be two different things, collusion ensues. Such as the bogus "Commission on Presidential Debates" which is a tool OF that Duopoly and ensures that a Ross Perot ain't getting in. So what you're left with on the ballot is Red Guy, Blue Guy and various fringers that don't have a snowball's chance in Hades. And we KNOW they don't have that chance, so we don't even consider them,
because it's pointless. The EC won't allow it. And needles to say the Duopoly well knows that so each side of it also knows it doesn't need to present a quality candidate, all it needs is to present one that isn't as bad as the other side. And thus we get our Hobson's Choice and it's been that way all our lifetimes.
"Voters do that on their own" my ass. Point the finger where it belongs.
I might add, as I always do, that this is a prime reason our national election turnout is so abysmal. For millions of voters there's just no point in leaving the house. Yet another flaw of the EC.
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