Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 days agoI don’t know how the hell we’re going to eliminate our first past the post voting system. The two entrenched parties, by design, will want to hold onto that power, and it will require their cooperation to both make change while simultaneously making the active choice to let go of power.
Doesn’t seem likely to happen, which is depressing.
BTW, I’m not disagreeing with you, just felt my reply made the most sense here.
I dont know how they got rich of monarchs when they hoard all the power, but somehow they’re mostly gone (at least de facto, since “monarchs” in constitutional monarchies are not true monarchs)
Maybe it goes a bit beyond just asking nicely. See Euromaiden Revolution (it was about corruption and foreign influence not fptp, but same principle applies)
The two parties will go away if nobody votes for them. The population is far too complacent for any kind of actual change.
No they won’t. As long as fptp exists, and as long as one party that blindly aligns with fascism and votes no matter what (as we have seen in practice), then all we will see is continued consolidation of power to that one party and a continued erosion of our rights.
We are living this exact scenario RIGHT NOW. One party was apathetic in voting, and the other one capitalized on it.
We can get there with A LOT more violence.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
New Zealand switched from first past the post to mixed-member proportional in 1992. Despite a two party system at the time.