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Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by cryptarch on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:16AM (#14253670)
You can vote for one of two near-identical parties but the vote will be decided by Facebook.
Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by nosuchthing on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:58AM (#14253824)
You can exert some effort to solve the two party system by getting your state to implement ranked choice voting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-vo...

Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by flyingfences on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:03AM (#14255269)
There will be resistance, though. Here in Maine we passed RCV via a referendum, but the legislature is still pushing back and trying to find ways to prevent the change from coming into effect.
Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by cryptarch on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:29AM (#14254769)
I'm Dutch, so no. Discourse is the only tool I know I have here.

The reason I'm invested in the U.S. political system is that it produces something resembling international jurisprudence ("if the U.S. is doing it, we should too!"), because it influences our policies through trade agreements and the U.N., and because many U.S. companies are very influential internationally.

That, and Trump's climate policies affect every conscious being on Earth.

Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by sirlatrom on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:19AM (#14254407)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo... "Although Arrow's theorem is a mathematical result, it is often expressed in a non-mathematical way with a statement such as no voting method is fair, every ranked voting method is flawed, or the only voting method that isn't flawed is a dictatorship."
Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by wtallis on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:26AM (#14254437)
That theorem says that no voting system is perfect, for a certain definition of perfect. It does not say that all voting systems are equally bad.
Re:Why public lands must remain in public hands by tradersam on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:20AM (#14253688)
Sad but true for most Americans.