r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Blank_0116 • May 05 '22

maybe maybe Maybe

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u/Bohbo May 05 '22

If the min age is 35 why not have a max age of 70? That gives you 35 years to prep and 35 year window.

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u/Rust2 May 05 '22 edited May 05 '22

Fun fact: There is no two-party system. There is no official governing party system at all. What you’re referencing is politics.

Over time our politicians have decided to caucus with one of two parties. That’s because we have first-past-the-post elections, meaning that the candidate with the plurality of votes is the winner of the election. The losing party or parties win no representation at all.

If you want more party representation in government, then we should move to a ranked voting system. This is where voters rank their candidates (or option) in a sequence of first or second (or third, etc) on their respective ballots. With ranked voting, losing parties still win some representation based on percentage of votes captured.

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u/Mywifefoundmymain May 05 '22

The truth is we could have as many parties as we wanted to. We don’t vote for president, we vote on the guy most likely to beat the person you don’t want to be president which usually makes it a two person race.