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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Jul 11, 2019, 11:44 AM Jul 2019

I want you to imagine the US without a Two-Party-system. [View all]

I want you to imagine the US with an electoral system that is not winner-take-all.

I want you to imagine the US with an electoral system where Third Parties have a chance to represent their point and are not automatically relegated to spoiling elections.

I want you to imagine the US with an electoral sytsem that says that it's okay for the Democrats and the Republicans to break up into smaller parties.



I want you to imagine a US where AOC and Bernie and Liz Warren don't have to suck up to a party-establishment for fear that falling out of line will cost the Democrats elections.

I want you to imagine a US where establishment-Democrats and Greens and Social-Democrats and the whole rest can run for seats on their own merits, without the pressure that not being No. 1 automatically throws the election to the Republicans.

I want you to imagine a US where it is possible for Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney to just walk away from the crazy and run for seats on their own merits, without the pressure that not being No. 1 automatically throws the election to the Democrats.



I want you to imagine a political system where hyperpartisanship is a political death-sentence because your party will never get more than 50% in elections and if you don't play nice, no other party wants to ally with you.

I want you to imagine a US that has not just Democrats and Republicans.

I want you to imagine a US that has a wide variety of parties and where voting is not a life-or-death issue.

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