The path to get there would be a pretty big downside. Some of us would say worth it, but that’s a privileged position and likely one we’d regret. Big time rock and a hard place energy.
Two parties is a design flaw of first past the post. There can be regional parties, and occasionally re-alignment elections, but the natural outcome of single member first past the post elections is two big-tent parties with roughly 50% of the seats each.
You need proportional representation or multi-member districts to have more than two stable parties.
Washington warned against political parities, period. The problems of first past the post creating a two party duopoly weren’t understood at the time.
It’s not a very practical approach to nationwide electoral strategy, IMO. Washington himself was allied with Hamilton’s Federalist party in practice, even if he never officially declared for it.
We’ve always had two major parties from the very beginning. But Washington was right. Perhaps the way things were set up was the problem. If only we had ways to change how the government worked and the rules weren’t set in stone.
/s, because that’s also what some of the Founders wanted to see happen. If anything that’s what fell, the adaptability of the system to changing times.
It will happen with the current administration. Red states are the most reliant on government “handouts”. Conservative voters are predominantly the least educated, least informed, and most economcially vulnerable people. They will be the most affected by trumps tariffs. They will be the most affected by his billionaire tax breaks. They will be the most affected by his cuts to social programs. I hate to see my fellow Americans fall on hard times, but despite all the history, expert opinions, and direct evidence that Trump is going to fuck them over, they keep voting for him. It’s going to be hard, but I’m not giving my conservative neighbors and family any direct support for the next 4 years. Thoughts and “prayers” are all that they will get from me. Let them suckle from the shriveled teat of their spray-tanned steer this time.
Wiping out the Republicans? I don’t see a downside with that.
The path to get there would be a pretty big downside. Some of us would say worth it, but that’s a privileged position and likely one we’d regret. Big time rock and a hard place energy.
GOP should have been banned from American politics already.
We’re never should have fallen to two parties like Washington and other founders warned against.
Two parties is a design flaw of first past the post. There can be regional parties, and occasionally re-alignment elections, but the natural outcome of single member first past the post elections is two big-tent parties with roughly 50% of the seats each.
You need proportional representation or multi-member districts to have more than two stable parties.
Washington warned against political parities, period. The problems of first past the post creating a two party duopoly weren’t understood at the time.
It’s not a very practical approach to nationwide electoral strategy, IMO. Washington himself was allied with Hamilton’s Federalist party in practice, even if he never officially declared for it.
We’ve always had two major parties from the very beginning. But Washington was right. Perhaps the way things were set up was the problem. If only we had ways to change how the government worked and the rules weren’t set in stone.
/s, because that’s also what some of the Founders wanted to see happen. If anything that’s what fell, the adaptability of the system to changing times.
It will happen with the current administration. Red states are the most reliant on government “handouts”. Conservative voters are predominantly the least educated, least informed, and most economcially vulnerable people. They will be the most affected by trumps tariffs. They will be the most affected by his billionaire tax breaks. They will be the most affected by his cuts to social programs. I hate to see my fellow Americans fall on hard times, but despite all the history, expert opinions, and direct evidence that Trump is going to fuck them over, they keep voting for him. It’s going to be hard, but I’m not giving my conservative neighbors and family any direct support for the next 4 years. Thoughts and “prayers” are all that they will get from me. Let them suckle from the shriveled teat of their spray-tanned steer this time.