This came up in another thread and I thought discussing this topic merited it's very own thread.
No, no and furthermore. No.
The US, like the UK, needs a strong voting system.
The two party system is fundamentally broken and the FPTP voting system that we use gives us two party politics, and that shortchanges us a lot.
Voting is like a false dichotomy. Vote red or vote blue. Don't like either candidate? tough.
If instead people could vote red, blue, purple, yellow, orange or green then our governments would more accurately represent the electorate, filibustering and rabid partisanship and gerrymandering is much harder to accomplish.
If you look at the US and the UK there are presently no stand out candidates from any party that you think "hey they'd make a great President/PM" I think that's also a symptom of 2 party politics.
If a given party had to beat out several other parties that all had reasonable chances of being elected then you would need to focus more on positive campaigning to point out what you would do to help, rather than negative campaigning and belittling the other party, as there is now more than one main rival party.
Also if a spectrum of political parties existed then more people would be inspired and enthused to join/lead a political party (it's hard to be a charismatic leader if you don't firmly believe in the ideals of that party) and we would have potentially more stand out candidates/politicians to represent us.
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Originally Posted by xjx388 (Post 12358011)
-we need a strong two-party system.
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Originally Posted by Segnosaur (Post 12358046)
I agree that the U.S. needs a strong 2-party system.
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The US, like the UK, needs a strong voting system.
The two party system is fundamentally broken and the FPTP voting system that we use gives us two party politics, and that shortchanges us a lot.
Voting is like a false dichotomy. Vote red or vote blue. Don't like either candidate? tough.
If instead people could vote red, blue, purple, yellow, orange or green then our governments would more accurately represent the electorate, filibustering and rabid partisanship and gerrymandering is much harder to accomplish.
If you look at the US and the UK there are presently no stand out candidates from any party that you think "hey they'd make a great President/PM" I think that's also a symptom of 2 party politics.
If a given party had to beat out several other parties that all had reasonable chances of being elected then you would need to focus more on positive campaigning to point out what you would do to help, rather than negative campaigning and belittling the other party, as there is now more than one main rival party.
Also if a spectrum of political parties existed then more people would be inspired and enthused to join/lead a political party (it's hard to be a charismatic leader if you don't firmly believe in the ideals of that party) and we would have potentially more stand out candidates/politicians to represent us.
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