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Originally Posted by dead_battery

trump will be a disaster and every sane person wants clinton but at a certain point you have to understand that people get sick of the blackmail of voting for the least worst. more poverty, more trillions on lost wars all so these deranged and deluded elites can live in their senile fantasy worlds.

at what point does it stop? are we supposed to just keep voting for the slightly less insane and destructive candidate? nothing will be solved until we make decisions with computers rather than brains imo

but you don't vote in 'merica, and this is different from the parliamentary system where your MPs get a prime minister

the issue here is that "big tent" parties absorb broad factions and the presidential election ends up being more or less the mathematical equivalent of a runoff election (not quite, but sort of).

it's not a great system because it drowns out everything but the most conservative voices. for example, bernie sanders goes from democratic runner-up to being a nobody, rather than stay as leader of the social democrats and take part in a coalition government with the let's call them hillariites.

then again it also helps prevent a madman minority from hijacking their coalition and projecting more power than the votes it gets as it often happens with the ultrareligious parties in israel. the tea party faction tried to become something like that within the republicans, actually, and it's what has been fracturing them since.

we're already being governed by computers, more or less. the thing is, it's people who program them for their own ends.