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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Wow, trying something new, huh? I definitely haven’t heard this exact same material every election since the 80s! How fresh and new! big ideas! If only somebody would have come up with “more social programs” and “tax corporations and the wealthy” before! I guess nobody thinking of these concepts must be why none of it ever happens, and not because the executive is just one of three branches of the US government so candidates for president can just vomit whatever hopeful fever dreams they want to, knowing full well none of it will ever make it past congress.














  • Our two-party system ensures that as long as one party puts up the worst candidate imaginable we have no choice but to vote for the other. It’s only in times where both candidates are at least average that we can afford to split our votes and potentially elect a candidate from a third, smaller, party. There aren’t enough, or any, protections on our electoral system to keep the two main parties from doing everything they can to hold power, since after all, they would have to be the ones to approve such protections.

    Every election year I see people talk about voting for “better candidates” or third party candidates, and I just roll my eyes because our system is working exactly as the two parties intend, and it’s institutionalized to the point where there isnt really any way to change it, short of armed insurrection. I always want to ask if that’s what they are suggesting.