So where's the part where the politicians do sexual favors (and promise a fuckton of legislative favors) for plutocrats, oligarchs and lobbyists once they're in office?
The part that makes the US an oligarchy with extra steps, in which officials never change their vote in favor of popular opinion over elite opinion, not even once is not mentioned on this chart.
The part that makes the US an oligarchy with extra steps, in which officials never change their vote in favor of popular opinion over elite opinion, not even once is not mentioned on this chart.
Originally the VP was whoever got the second most votes. Then the 13th Ammendment happened. Now in most states (all states) the President and VP run as a pair but the Electoral Delegates vote for them separately.
Can the delegates vote for one and not the other? Depends. Traditionally you cast your delegate vote according to the results so you'd vote along "ticket" lines. In some states delegates ( who are often put forward by the parties) are bound to vote according to the election results. In some states they are not. Traditionally they do but as we saw last US election we aren't even pretending to be doing sane things anymore.
It's quite weird actually: You vote for a party and a local candidate. The local candidate get's into parlament directly while the rest of parlament is filled proportionally to the general cast vote if they manage to get over 5% of the votes (this does not apply to direct winning candidates or recognized minority representing parties). With parliament resizing to accomodate for at least your direct candidates to represent your percentage. Which always made me wonder, if everyone votes for just Party A's direct candidates, but they get 0% of the general vote, would all other parties then have to get infinite extra positions? That would result in an infinitely big parliament, which basically means every citizen is now in parliament, and kinda get's around the fight over universal basic income, right?
in another thread here there were some non-us folk lecturing US democrats that voting “uncommitted” in the primary (where incumbents always sweep) as a message to Biden in protest of the genocide in Gaza is “fascist.”
i want everyone, even randos from Australia, to know what the process is if such lecturing is gonna happen so that discourse stops stooping to uninformed accusations (it happened multiple times lol)
Tbh, the US has so much power and plays such an important role in the world that it is everyone's place. Sad things is that we don't have a vote on where the US is heading.
As an American I'd also like to be excused. This is an outdated infographic that doesn't include the part where the loser claims to win, and then tries to kill members of the government and take back the presidency.
It is exciting because for democrats you can make your desire to end the genocide known and for republicans, whoever is has no ethics and is still registered as such, can at least make Trump perform like shit despite effectively running as a 2nd term incumbent (even if he wins a state, it’s at a much worse ratio than Biden versus his opponents and the protest vote).
[x] nor can hold office in the United States or a state if they have previously taken an oath to support the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion against it.*
*unless they have packed the court with right wingnut justices
