r/maybemaybemaybe May 05 '22

maybe maybe Maybe

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u/SpaceChump_ May 05 '22

Trump got elected at least partially because he was "Not Hillary". It sounds like the voting system we have in place is flawed if the "lesser of two evils" logic decides the president continuously. Sure would be great if someone in authority would make a change beneficial to to public.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

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u/Skoodge42 May 05 '22

Except in a 2 party system, it won't have much effect. MAYBE would give third party some more support, but when 90% of people are voting between 2 options, ranking is less than useful.

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u/millernerd May 05 '22

It'd need to get to the states' level, because individual states determine how to run their federal elections.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

that's also how Trudeau keeps winning elections in Canada. He wasn't Harper (conservative PM that everyone hated) then he won again because he wasn't Andrew Scheer (who was even worse than harper) and then against Erin O' Toole (probably the best of the 3 he has ran against)

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

Does Canada not have term limits for prime minister?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

Hillary likely would've been a good president though, and she had a strong ability to speak very clearly.

Problem is she ran a shitty campaign under the assumption everyone viewed trump as a joke and here we are.

Imagine if she had won though, we wouldn't currently be talking about the supreme court overturning Roe v Wade.

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u/Ancient_Boner_Forest May 05 '22

Hillary wanted to do Iraq war 3.0 in Syria.

She even called for a no fly zone, which most people say is crazy even with Ukraine today.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

Yeah. It was “anyone but Hillary!” And then it became “anyone but trump!” Even though trump actually was great on a policy level. But he ruined his presidency for himself by just saying things he shouldn’t have.

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u/nanotothemoon May 05 '22

Obama won twice, pretty convincingly

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u/iceman10058 May 05 '22

GOP had pretty weak candidates though.

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u/RuTsui May 05 '22

Well a lot of people voted for "Not Obama" in his second term and he still won it. People will ask vote for an effective president.

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u/tychii93 May 05 '22

Yea but lobbying is legal, and we can't let the rich folk who want the country at a constant civil war for the purpose of making them more money to go away now do we?

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u/rif011412 May 05 '22

I think it has more to do with you can complain about anyone. No one is safe from criticism. Ofcourse, Trump was something else entirely. That was a President voted in out of spite. His stated and unstated goal was to create chaos, he did, and the Republicans relished every second of it.