2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Voter says he was uninformed when he cast his vote for Trump [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)attention is a reason working class ppl vote rethug.
So is racism and sexism.
The question is, i think, is there anything we can do to change it, other than the slow game of waiting for demographics to change?
I think IRV is something that would allow rhe idealists to register their displeasure by voting third party, while at the same time helping a dem get in rather than throwing away their vote. It gets brought up fdom time to ti.e but never holds interest. I don't know how we'd ever get it, though. It's about as likelyas getting rid of the EC.
I know prejudiced attitudes can be corrected on an individual basis, but i can't see how we would attack it large scale.
We should have learned the lesson from this election that relying solely on firing up the base leaves precious little margin for error, seeing as how trumps margi s in his swing state victories were small.
What do tou think we should do?