How do we destroy the two-party system?

[Politruk]

The rest are too few to matter.

Only because of the first-past-the-post, single-member district system. Do try to keep up.

 

[Politruk]

Most gov't are formed after an election, that's how elections work.

But it's different with a presidential or separation-of-powers system. The executive is elected with his own separate mandate, and takes office regardless of his level of support in the legislature. So no one party having a legislative majority does not impede the process.

 

[Politruk]

PR is a better way to elect a multimember policymaking body -- Congress, a state legislature, a city council.

For election to just one office -- president, governor, sheriff -- see instant-runoff voting.

 

[Politruk]

Destroying the two-party system is more urgent now than ever.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Most gov't are formed after an election, ...

With the seeds of their own destruction.

We hold elections every two years, so now, the resistance begins in the open and not in the cabinet (but we do have an entrenched bureaucracy too that answers to no master and it loathes Trump; can thwart him). All the Left needs to do is win the House.

Big Orange Vulture Capitalist becomes lame duck...

 

[AceDesSpades]

Destroying the two-party system is more urgent now than ever.

That is the clarion call of the loser which is heard as a plaintive whine by the victor.

The two-party system is healthy, alive and well.

The one-party ideas might be ill...

 

[Politruk]

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[Rightguide]

And replace it with a multiparty system? Which is better.

The most important thing is proportional representation.

If, in the next election to your state legislature, 20% of the voters vote Green (or Socialist, Libertarian, Constitution, Reform -- substitute your own favorite third party), how many Greens get elected? Under our present single-member district, winner-take-all system, none, because there are not enough Green voters in any one district the elect a member. The present system just mathematically tends to produce a two-party system -- you have to find a place under one big tent or the other if you want to participate at all.

Under PR, if the Greens get 20% of the votes, they get 20% of the seats.

With respect to proportional representation, the problem is EXPLAINING it. Most Americans do not even know what it is. I have asked actual candidates for public office for their opinion on PR and they never know what I’m talking about – they always think the term has something to do with race-based redistricting.

It’s a publicity problem. PR would be a hot issue in America if the people only understood it is an option.

Check out FairVote.

The one party system in California is killing it's citizens.

 

[UltraChad]

Destroying the two-party system is more urgent now than ever.

WHy?

Because you and your batshit ideas are losing....

 

[Politruk]

WHy?

Because you and your batshit ideas are losing....

Because last year the two-party system offered us two candidates, each of whom half the people found not merely not preferable, but unacceptably loathsome.

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

i didn't read all the posts but TERM LIMITS WOULD BE A START there's no problem with 2 parties the problem is with the people that make it a career not a duty to represent their voters!

 

[Politruk]

i didn't read all the posts but TERM LIMITS WOULD BE A START there's no problem with 2 parties the problem is with the people that make it a career not a duty to represent their voters!

We need career pols. Government is a complicated business -- amateurs are useless.

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

We need career pols. Government is a complicated business -- amateurs are useless.

How's that working for California with the highest taxes,
Infrastructure in disrepair the over sized bloated government workers that are spending money on murals and cutting public safety when they need it the most?
What they we need are part time people (I have no problem with 10-15 years not 40ish) they must have the knowledge to over see these projects. and not waste the money even on the projects.

 

[Politruk]

I've seen a new catchphrase coming up more and more: Uniparty. Implying the two parties are functionally one.

Maybe. But that would not be the case in a multiparty system.