Centralized elections are often much more obfuscated and less transparent. Federated elections are more resistant to corruption and less confusing for voters.
I know the exact process of my county’s voting system, I can meet with the people involved and have conversations with them. It’s a human-level system with paper records and secure processes.
Replacing that with a top-down national voting system would not reduce obfuscation in any way.
No, you were just very confused and it’s a lot of assumptions to rethink.
Each county runs their own elections. It’s not obfuscated, it’s federated.
There’s 50 states, and they don’t all do it the same way. Each state has 2 senators, 1-52 representatives, etc. Then there’s national elections where a small pool of candidates is voted on by the entire country, but which names appear on which ballots and how depends on the county you’re voting in.
It would certainly be an easier fight without imperialism
Each state and party runs their own, so I guess it depends. In Washington State we made the primary election run the same as the general: there’s a list of candidates with party affiliations, and the two with the most votes progress to the general in November.
Actually we would still need to fight malaria and tuberculosis even without imperialism.
The meme doesn’t really say anything about what should be done. It’s describing the current situation in a way that highlights the ineffectiveness of electoral politics.
A primary election is how the two options are selected. By having the general be a choice between two parties it reduces noise from splitting the vote. The primary election is how the candidates from each party are chosen.
The core issue is the system itself: first past the post voting necessitates two parties for decisive votes, and any method to arrive at that outcome is going to be hostile to nuance.
Though I would argue that the process of choosing a super powerful leader through popular vote is a bit weird to begin with.
There are a lot of things about American politics that need correcting, but the federated election process is not one of them. It’s a good thing, and it isn’t obfuscation. If you want to keep saying it is you’re going to have to explain it clearly.