Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17835203
When Kamala wins, I’m curious if it will encourage a shorter election cycle, so people are still excited about their candidate when voting starts.
I don’t think anybody actually wants our elections to be perpetual. I imagine it’d be easy to fix, except for the fact that longer elections cost more and this means the richest have more sway. I bet they’d resist.
Time to stop handing control of society to rich people who lack experience of being a normal human being.
When Kamala wins
Love that optimism.
But honestly though, I wonder how many “liberals” (let alone people who were undecided, even though it’s hard to imagine they exist) won’t be too happy about a black woman as the candidate
When Kamala wins
Love that optimism.
OC might be non native speaker. There is e.g. in German a conjunction (wenn) which is used to indicate both, temporal (when) or conditial meaning (if).
I wasn’t a fan in 2020, but just seeing her now is kinda relaxing. 80+ President? She held a place of reassurance in that.
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We’ve had so much chaos and stress. Against that context, seeing her relaxes me, has for a bit now.
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High odds Whitmer will be the other side of that ticket after August.
Too short election terms make for a dysfunctional government. With the usual 4-5 years most countries use half of that term is already spent campaigning for the next, forcing the government to do anything unpopular (but often necessary) during the first years, and then tone it down and do popular things else they have no chance of getting re elected.
If you shortened that further the politicians would be forced into a perpetual state of pandering to the voter base instead of actually governing.
