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I listened to this episode yesterday. Several interesting points and discussion, and the political industrial complex is real, but I'm not 100% convinced by the

I listened to this episode yesterday. Several interesting points and discussion, and the political industrial complex is real, but I'm not 100% convinced by the argument that the two parties are a duopoly therefore they do not serve the public. While the political system basically ensures that there are only two parties, they rotate over time and adopt or discard ideas as the public needs them to. Clay Shirky discusses this argument in https://medium.com/@cshirky/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-protest-vote-c2fdacabd704 https://medium.com/@cshirky/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-protes...

conanbatt 8y ago
One stern warning is that in multiple party systems, you can get one party that dominates everything, and then all the smaller representative powers are meaningless. Argentina is a case-study with Peronism. Since the return of democracy, no party has yet to finish a term but the peronists.
- kragen 8y ago
  While that's true, the current president, Mauricio Macri, is currently non-Peronist, and although he's unpopular and the economy is collapsing, he's made it three years, and he has a substantial chance of lasting to the end of his term in December 2019.
  - conanbatt 8y ago
    The exception that proves the rule. And maybe not even, as he actually got to power thanks to the peronists, and keeps it becuase they need him.
gowld 8y ago
What if the public prefers some ideas from one party, and other ideas from the other party?