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Political parties have very intentionally created the deep divides in the electorate. It's not something that just happened, it was something that was made to o
by TigeriusKirk 6y ago
Political parties have very intentionally created the deep divides in the electorate. It's not something that just happened, it was something that was made to occur for the benefit of the politicians.
So I'm still putting the blame right on them.
- monocularvision 6y agoThe power of political parties has _greatly declined_ in the last 50 years. Do you think perhaps more powerful parties had a longer-term outlook and were more willing to compromise? Personally I don’t think the decline in Congressional power has a single cause. But the decline of political party power is surely one.
- etrautmann 6y agoSure, but it would be more useful to attempt to understand why the system incentivized politicians this way. If everyone that engages with a system can be blamed for doing something wrong, then the system needs to be rethought. Concretely, I think we should prioritize campaign finance reform and lobbying. It's only a start, but a potentially important one.