Americans need a second party.
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drmoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Americans need to organize themselves out of 2 party system. It’s the only way and funnily enough - it would be a much more american system.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Folstar@lemmus.org 4 days ago
There are systemic barriers to a 3rd (or 4th etc) party. No amount of campaigning or organizing will make them viable without systemic change. Attempting to push 3rd parties at the ballot box will, hilariously (in a sad way), benefit the party you least align with.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Americans need to organize themselves out of 2 party system.
What is the point of a multi-party system when we concede all the other parties are all ontologically evil?
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s like a wheel - the more sides there is the smoother it rolls.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Why the hell do you want government to roll? Damn thing is going to roll right over you.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Who believes this? I mean other than Republicans I guess.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Americans need to organize themselves out of 2 party system.
They absolutely do. But that’s not happening in the next election. Or the one after that. Or the one after that. Or the one after that.
It happens when a 3rd party actually gets serious about getting their message out and when Americans across the nation start voting for members of that 3rd party in local/state elections and start putting members from that party in Congress. It’s going to take YEARS AND YEARS.
Until then, it would be nice if people could suck it up and make the best decision in the situation we find ourselves in.
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 4 days ago
Maybe get rid of parties altogether? They already have one representative per state, why not go with that and elect one of them a president?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If a group of people start collaborating together to elect people aligned with their socio-economic interests, what is your plan to stop them?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you’ve gotta start way lower than that first. how can we elect a president when we can’t elect a mayor
pingveno@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The framers of the Constitution had objections to parties and left them out. Completely refused to even acknowledge them. Within five years, a party duopoly formed. Even nominally one party states have hidden internal factions. It is better to acknowledge human nature and compensate than to work against it only to cause harm in failure.