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My point entirely. We need to be united if we want to defeat Trump. And for those who say that voting for a moderate democrat hurts progressives, I’d say that Trump winning hurts way more, and if we all actually turn out and vote for Biden, he might actually realize how many Progressives voted for him, and hopefully he will shift further to the left after seeing this.
I do actually think [read: hope] that Biden has a good chance of winning unlike what you said based off of the Blue Wave in 2018 and polling results, but about your second point about ranked voting, I completely agree. I believe that we must adopt IRV voting for single-winner elections, including the presidential and gubernatorial elections, and either STV or a multi-winner IRV for multi-winner elections, such as the House of Representatives. The Presidency and Gubernatorial elections should be based on the popular vote, and the House should be essentially like a parliament, meaning that it is irrelevant where the votes come from. The whole reason the House exists is because it is more representative of the will of the people than the senate, but if you want real representation, we need to have it based off of the popular vote with no regard to the states, like in a parliament, except with less power than the average parliament, since in most parliamentary systems the parliament gets to choose the PM and has more power than other branches of government.
I agree with you on both points, especially the last one. You did however mention that some of the conservative justices supported that LGBTQ rights bill and the DACA bill, which politically are liberal issues, but they still support the conservative narrative when it comes to the Supreme Court. The Republicans are trying to push he narrative that “the conservative justices are interpreting the law, not redefining it”. By supporting the liberals in these cases, they are actually upholding previous legislation, which helps them politically. The republicans have been claiming that the Democratic justices are trying to push for new laws as opposed to interpreting past ones, and so by voting to uphold the meaning of previous legislation, the republicans are actually secretly doing themselves a favor, as it makes them seem less partisan and more pro-constitution. I saw an amazing newscast video about this, but I don’t know where it was from, as a teacher if mine showed it to me. I think it was from NBC, but they did a way better job explaining it. But if you search for why the conservative justices voted for this, you can probably find it.
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One more note, I’m currently listening to music from Alegría (throwback to a past conversation with Verdant Haven) to drown out the sound of Trump’s rally, as I was getting too aggravated by it. I even was yelling at our TV, prompting my family to go watch in another room because they couldn’t hear tRump talk.
I also just got an issue about whether flag burning should be legal (it is legal to burn flags in Middle Barael, but burning property is still illegal of course), and I’m hearing Trump in the other room saying that we should punish flag-burners and flag-stompers with a year in prison. Meanwhile KKK members and the gun-bearing protestors who stormed the Michigan capital are walking freely. Only in America
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