Except in the US the moderate left generally chooses to cater to the right when they need to bolster their numbers, rather than the far left. It makes sense given that our current Democratic party is far closer to the moderate right than the far left. We’d need to elect new incoming lefter-leaning democratic leaders across all levels of government over the course of decades to get the party as a whole to tilt leftward rather than rightward when a clean majority is needed. It’s still the most viable option, but it’ll be a lot of work to achieve.
Signtist
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I wish the US had a system like that. It’s unfortunate that even a more inclusive voting system suffers from a surplus of voters fueled by hate and selfishness, but here in the US even protest votes for the far left play into the far right’s hands since all 3rd party votes together wouldn’t even come close to rivaling the 2 established parties.
Signtist@bookwyr.meto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Terms for our Times (artist: Jen Sorensen)English0·18 days agoMy point is that the time when we might have found the right words to fix things is almost certainly over. It’s now time to start fighting against injustice with real action.
Signtist@bookwyr.meto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Terms for our Times (artist: Jen Sorensen)English0·19 days agoWe can’t even agree on what most of these words mean, much less get the majority of people to care about whether we adhere to them. I know multiple people who think the entirety of science is wrong, and that hispanic people don’t have the human right of safe housing, even when legal citizens.
True. Think of how many you’d be able to inspect from up there!