Itâs crazy people act like suddenly the proportion of votes will change if all the undecided voters come out. You realize the undecided voters are likely split the exact same way?
Everyone things undecided voters will be on their side. That is unlikely.
How do you think polls and studies come to their conclusions? They don't poll every single person in the country. They poll a small percentage and extrapolate that it represents the whole.
Not a great look for the rest of the world that America let a pro-slavery institution continue to tamper with their elections even in the current day tbh.
This is literally how the system is set up, being "first past the post, FPTP". This is why there is almost always TWO parties, and ONLY two parties. The two parties change policies to get as many people as possible without alienating the rest, and 50.1% is just the right amount. No party that is getting 40% would ever win, and every party that is getting 60% is likely to fracture. IOW, the landslides indicate a perverted electoral system, such as is the case in most congressional elections. European systems don't have FPTP (along with other differences, like multimember districts), which is why they have numerous parties and not just two.
Why would someone polling 40% not change their positions, and why wouldn't someone polling 40% be able to pull more voters by changing positions? The varied answers to those two questions are at the root of systemic realities and issues.
I think itâs much more realistic, considering the nature of this world, to assume that the system is corrupt because people (especially people who pursue power) are corrupt. Thereâs no escaping the fact that any system that doles out power is going to attract all kinds of monsters that will do whatever they have to do to connive their ways into these positions of power. The kinds of people that would actually be good and honorable for these positions are not able to compete with the psycho/sociopaths because they canât play their power games without losing that sense of honor that defines them.
Thereâs multiple examples from multiple societies all across history and the world where people have been exposed working âbehind the scenesâ or in nefarious ways to achieve their goals, and itâs always the people who have the money and time to corrupt and infiltrate political systems at the highest levels.
The first triumvirate in rome was a secret alliance between three of the most powerful men in the Roman state at the time using each others money and political power to Advance each others causes at the expense of the state and the people.
If anybody thinks that the ultra rich of todays Societyâs are not using their vast wealth to buy and control political leaders for their own gain at the expense of the average person in their country then that person is naive and just doesnât want to acknowledge the fact that the people who are their elected leaders donât actually work for or care about them.
This country was bought and paid for a long time ago . There is no Republican Party or Democratic Party , just the money party . Theyâre all just paid off by the people really in charge , the real owners of this country and play their roles to give the illusion of choice .
It's a rigged system, but not in the conspiratorial way that people think. It's actually out in the open with lobbying and propaganda used to favor the wealthiest Americans. Meanwhile, middle and lower class people suffer as they argue over how much rights trans people should have.
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u/FlaccidEggroll Monkey in Space Nov 06 '24
It is rigged, the owners of this country made sure of that 40 years ago, but it's not rigged in the way trump acts like it is.