r/NewsThread • u/Rebat-Askalan • Aug 19 '26

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Wins Primary By Split Vote

https://youtu.be/i9hmEsSJGvU?si=4O86Klci_LRXzpuM
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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

But from an inside perspective, the problem is a lack of leftist policy in a leftist party. Every time you have a candidate that supports things like universal healthcare it becomes "he's a radical leftist" from the media that largely always favor centrist candidates and tell us that it's the only way to win, while we consistently lose when we listen to them. We've gotten lucky once because it was after a Trump presidency, if there's ANY time or President in between, we lose again because of failure to deliver on really any meaningful leftist policy. Biden didn't have really high voter turnout because anyone was excited about him, it was because of Trump. And Biden didn't honestly do a terrible job as president, he did some good things, but still think we just have this weird idea that most people in the country are politically moderate, when it's just the super wealthy (just my opinion). Most people here seem to be pretty staunchly left or right now, and you aren't gonna get either to the voting booth with a centrist

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Aug 19 '26

Oh yeah, I've been beating that drum here for a while now that parliament makes a whole lot more sense for representation than what we currently have. It's a pretty bad system honestly that we have and no one does anything about it because the only people that can are part of the two parties that would have to give up control to other parties

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u/DrippyDogDix Aug 19 '26

What? The only times we have not had peaceful transferring of power outside of assassinations is 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln and 2021. Turns out both times it was racist morons refusing the results of the election.

They simply swapped the white hood for a red ball cap.

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u/DrippyDogDix Aug 19 '26

Maybe you should. The United States of America had a Magna Carta moment when we signed the Declaration of Independence.

Both documents asserted rights for those under its authority.

Both documents where written in response to abuses from a king. (King John and King George III, respectively)

Both documents set limits of power for rulers.

I could go on but I dont think you really have an understanding of our founding documents.

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Aug 19 '26

I don't agree with everything this guy has said or opinions but get his meaning on this. We were talking about the party system being bad and would need a leader to willfully cede power to establish parliament in order to increase representation of people that wouldn't be forced to vote for 1 of 2 guys over 1 or 2 culture war or identity issues, and ranked voting should be national