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That's just the point though. In our system, one side has no incentive to move to the center, because they can win elections without doing so. A more representa
by jgwil2 6y ago
That's just the point though. In our system, one side has no incentive to move to the center, because they can win elections without doing so. A more representative system would force both parties to move to the center as they try to capture a majority of votes. One party loses, it recalibrates to try to win the next time, and each party adjusts over time to be more in line with what the public wants.
- zepto 6y agoNot really. The fact that there is a numeric advantage favoring the republicans because they happen to be more appealing to rural voters doesn’t change the fact that neither side is attempting to be representative across the polarization. If the split shifted from 47/53 to 50/50, yes the democrats would have a lot more power. But there is no reason to suggest they’d be any more representative of the 47% who didn’t vote for them than the republicans are of the 53% who didn’t for for them.