That’s the issue with the two party system. You have to choose between batshit crazy extremist radicalized neo nazi party. Or the rest all into one party blended and diluted into a somewhere in the middle to please everyone but really no one is happy with party.
We became a global superpower under a two party system. We passed the New Deal under a two party system.
It’s not the number of parties holding us back from greatness, and the suggestion that it is is what gets a fringe group of people to vote for Ralph Nader, and ultimately hand the country to George W Bush.
Republican lunatics absolutely love their party right now. The problem is that democrats keep voting for moderates in the primaries because they think that voting for Bernie Sanders will wind up with us losing the general election… As if Republicans don’t already call Obama, Hillary, and Biden socialists and communists.
You’re right. It’s not the number of parties. It’s where the separation of this parties is. The system worked great for a very long time until a group of extremists figured out a way to pull the blankets to them a bit more every year. Gerrymandering and lobbying to tip the balance more and more. In sports, when someone finds a loophole in the rules, they change the rules to keep the game fair. In politics, when they find a hole the dig it deeper and deeper. That’s the difference. None the less, the cure t result is two parties so imbalanced that realistically it’s a single watered down party and an extremist party.
That’s the issue with the two party system. You have to choose between batshit crazy extremist radicalized neo nazi party. Or the rest all into one party blended and diluted into a somewhere in the middle to please everyone but really no one is happy with party.
I hate that argument.
We became a global superpower under a two party system. We passed the New Deal under a two party system.
It’s not the number of parties holding us back from greatness, and the suggestion that it is is what gets a fringe group of people to vote for Ralph Nader, and ultimately hand the country to George W Bush.
Republican lunatics absolutely love their party right now. The problem is that democrats keep voting for moderates in the primaries because they think that voting for Bernie Sanders will wind up with us losing the general election… As if Republicans don’t already call Obama, Hillary, and Biden socialists and communists.
You’re right. It’s not the number of parties. It’s where the separation of this parties is. The system worked great for a very long time until a group of extremists figured out a way to pull the blankets to them a bit more every year. Gerrymandering and lobbying to tip the balance more and more. In sports, when someone finds a loophole in the rules, they change the rules to keep the game fair. In politics, when they find a hole the dig it deeper and deeper. That’s the difference. None the less, the cure t result is two parties so imbalanced that realistically it’s a single watered down party and an extremist party.