• Peddlephile@lemm.ee
    23·
    10 months ago

    As an outsider, it’s really depressing to hear you only get two parties to choose from.

    • jkrtn
      161·
      10 months ago

      We have to keep it forever though, because some dead slave owners thought up the perfect government, apparently.

      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
        15·
        10 months ago

        by far my favorite part about this is that thomas jefferson thought the constitution should be rewritten from scratch every 25 years but that hasn’t stopped every conservative politician ever from treating it like gospel

        • jkrtn
          11·
          10 months ago

          “Constitution Originalists.”

      • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        And we can’t change it because “if we don’t just keep following the system, we might elect Hitler. Don’t vote third party, that’s throwing your vote away and then the other guy will win”.

        There’s no winning. Only us constantly losing.