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[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our Constitution as it is is pretty good, so wisdom would be to tread lightly. I think the only change I would make is to prohibit primary elections. That would be considered a right, as in, no person or group may deny a candidate with sufficient signatures the right to appear on the ballot. I would also mandate some sort of ranked choice voting or instant runoff election. These two changes would be to fix the problem of having to vote against a bad guy rather than voting for a good guy. It far too often ends with the second worst candidate who goes into the primary, coming out victorious. We should be electing the best, not the second worst.

[–] Peaty@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whose constitution is "ours"?

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I forget that while Reddit had a largely American userbase especially in political posts, Lemmy does not. I refer to the United States Constitution, which I think is damn near perfect, but has been screwed up by multiple generations of voters who pay little or no attention to their government's mismanagement and just keep re-electing the same incumbents despite having shit approval ratings for Congress, because they don't bother to actually do any research of their own or read what the candidates write other than just a few sound bytes on TV.