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Two party politics is bullshit. Party politics is pretty much a sham. The notion of voting for one person or party to represent all your different views or beliefs is just weird and is an illusion of democracy. With the internet a revised version of Athenian democracy could be achieved, everyone has a right to vote but would probably only exercise it on issues that concern them.
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With the internet a revised version of Athenian democracy could be achieved
Yeah, and we’d have the death penalty, number plates for bikes and all forrins sent home by the end of next week.
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With the internet a revised version of Athenian democracy could be achieved, everyone has a right to vote but would probably only exercise it on issues that concern them.
Should Britain leave the European Union?
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With the internet a revised version of Athenian democracy
I don't even have to look it up to know that sophisticated reliable internet use is probably something around <50% of the population with a giant discrepancy towards educated wealthy people.
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This ended up being a long procrastination post, so.......
I found the whole Lincoln Project thing vaguely curious, but I never trusted it. Figured its time would come and just hoped it wouldn't damage the anti-trump movement too badly.
Regrading cuomo, he should definitely resign.
The notion in the opinion piece that "With the end of the Trump presidency, we’ve been told that we are entering a new era of accountability" is sadly laughable. Not a sliver of a chance. Zero. Unfortunately you can file this opinion piece under another fart in the wind section.
I've heard lots of discussion on NPR these days on how to help Washington. NPR is liberal, but tries at least it tries to be objective. One idea is to make racing to the center and working together politically advantageous. This isn't an old idea, but I never gave it much thought because I loved Obama and before that I was basically a teenager and after that.... well.... I was busy being disgusted.
Actually it wouldn't be so hard in the House to do, for example. As it stands, you need only 50% of the votes to be Speaker I think. If you increased that to 60% then you'd need to please people on both sides of the isle more frequently, but you'd still have the advantage of the majority.
With regard to the Presidential elections, partisan behavior is encouraged by the primaries. The way you get the party nomination is by motivating the base, and that usually involves running as a candidate who is pretty far from center. I don't really know how to get around that. someone probably has ideas. I'm sure there's a well informed political science article somewhere out there on this very subject matter of racing to the center.
but anyway I think that's the answer.