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    Ranked choice.

    Fix gerrymandering.

    Popular vote.

    If you don’t want this, you’re simply a sore loser. You dont want democracy, you want a boys club.

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      6 months ago

      want a boys club.

      *white, straight, christian, republican, cis, landowning boys club

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        I do think it is entirely possible, it just requires money. There is a way to defeat our two-party system and it’s by running a third party that gets the popular vote.

        If someone were running on the platforms of:

        Corporations can’t own residential real estate.

        Members of Congress are not allowed to own or trade stock in any capacity, private or public.

        Socialized single payer healthcare. Not rocket science.

        Comcast, Verizon, every other ISP gets absolved by the United States government and is no longer a for-profit competitive agency,

        CEOs are forbidden by law to be paid more than 1,000 times more than their lowest paid employee.

        Minimum wage is $30 an hour. Entry level IT roles, entry level teaching positions now pay about $85,000.

        Taxes are now included in sales prices everywhere.

        No merchant is allowed to change the price of any product for at least one fiscal quarter.

        Buying or purchasing means owning. No company is allowed to tamper with what you own in any way shape or form. They will be held fully liable for the total cost of damages in the form of ca