If you are saying caucuses are confusing and/or undemocratic but you also like and support third parties, I'd encourage you to think longer about this issue. First past the post voting almost universally leads to a two-party system.
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Caucuses are basically just real-time transferable vote systems. Yes, they are discriminatory because of the amount of time required for participation, it selects against people with kids, people who work nights, poor people, etc. That said, it's real, actual community politics.
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I feel like a lot of the people saying "caucuses are dumb" are also people who say "two parties is dumb" and I get annoyed with people making shallow, easy criticisms instead of thinking about and participating in the system we have.
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How we vote matters, and straight up "who got the most" seems simple and easy, but it demands a lot of compromises (the two party system) we take for granted. If you support a more varied party system, it's going to take things like caucuses or single transferable votes or...
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proportional representation. If you want to roll your eyes at the same things everyone else is rolling their eyes at, get ready for nothing to change, baby!
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I think there's pluses and minuses about the caucus process. Ranked voting should be used in every election everywhere. Standing around in small groupings in a high school gym as a form of voting, not so much.
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