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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Nevada Democratic Primary Debate 2020: The Hunt For The Wild Bloomberg
 
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Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
 Would you still support FPTP over the delegate system if the race was between 5 flavors of leftists and Bloomberg with a tiny lead?

The next election the nazi party will most likely win a plurality in my country. I'm voting for the leftmost party as long as they are prepared to make deals with the neoliberal parties if necessary to keep the nazis out of government.

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Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009

GlyphGryph posted:

Approval Voting means socialists won't be elected even if the electorate loving loves socialists.

It's bad for democracy to make it so only the least objectionable, least contentious candidate with mainstream and media approval has a chance to emerge victorious. It's a worse version of FPTP because tactical voting means you don't even have to worry about giving lip service to the various parts of your coalition, since they have the "release valve" of a meaningless vote but practically still have to support you to stop the "worse choice" from getting in.

What does a good democratic system look like to you that doesn't reward moderates and that's not FPTP?

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