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Are you trying to make the case for single party rule here?
by someguydave 7y ago
Are you trying to make the case for single party rule here?
- dodobirdlord 7y agoCalifornia objectively seems to operate much better since Prop 25 excluded the minority party from having a say on the budget. The behavior in a two-party system of a minority party that knows it's going to be a minority party indefinitely is frequently to sabotage everything possible in hopes of making the ruling party's life difficult, or to make them look incompetent. Stripping them of power doesn't turn legislating into dictatorial rule by fiat, it just moves it into the consensus-building processes of the majority party. Two-party rules with a sidelined minority party looks a lot like a coalition government in a multi-party system.
- bsder 7y agoThe jungle primaries actually make even that case better. You don't have the case where some nitwit edges out a reasonable candidate in the primary and then wins the general simply because they have (D) or (R) next to their name. In California's case, if we send two Democrats to the general election, the Republicans get to weigh in on which they find more acceptable. It forces the candidates to the actual center. It would work that way for two Republican candidates as well, but a whole host of Republicans simply quit after we un-gerrymandered the state.