WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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    1 year ago

    throwing your vote away

    Until everyone stops thinking that way- the same cycle will repeat every 4 years.

    Democrats and republicans blaming the person who came into office before them, for all of the countries problems, followed by a lot of election promises they will never keep.

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      No, pp gave ipoh a viable path forward on 3rd party options.

      Going “my way or the highway” instead of voting for people who can win is what gets you locked in fptp.

      If voting records reflect spey for people who agree with and support ranked choice you’ll see more politicians who support it.

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      It’s pretty much an objective fact that voting third-party (especially in a swing state), is indeed “throwing your vote away”. It has been well studied and well documented.