“The purpose of a system is what it does”. If our system consistently produces shit candidates, shit policies, shit results and demoralizes voters… Then we have a shit system and nothing will ever improve until we demand a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation and safe guards against fascism.
This is certainly a viewpoint, but I don’t necessarily agree when people state it as if it’s a foregone conclusion.
Starve the beast exists. They purposefully cripple these systems, and if you were to adhere to that statement, then it means that we should do away with the systems altogether because they’re currently broken (read: sabotaged).
Multiparty democracy would be fantastic but that’s a goal if we make it through this crisis. A more realistic (yet still fanciful) plan would be to destroy the Democratic party and create something new from the ashes. First past the post is here to stay for a long time.
Going to one of the many forms of preferential voting/ Ranked Choice Voting would work. That both major parties vehemently oppose changing first past the post should tell you that such a change would be effective in breaking their power.
“The purpose of a system is what it does”. If our system consistently produces shit candidates, shit policies, shit results and demoralizes voters… Then we have a shit system and nothing will ever improve until we demand a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation and safe guards against fascism.
This is certainly a viewpoint, but I don’t necessarily agree when people state it as if it’s a foregone conclusion.
Starve the beast exists. They purposefully cripple these systems, and if you were to adhere to that statement, then it means that we should do away with the systems altogether because they’re currently broken (read: sabotaged).
That is a bad take imo
Multiparty democracy would be fantastic but that’s a goal if we make it through this crisis. A more realistic (yet still fanciful) plan would be to destroy the Democratic party and create something new from the ashes. First past the post is here to stay for a long time.
Going to one of the many forms of preferential voting/ Ranked Choice Voting would work. That both major parties vehemently oppose changing first past the post should tell you that such a change would be effective in breaking their power.