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The main issue is that in the US, it seems like voting in the primaries is much more effective than third parties. Look at groups like the Squad, the Tea Party
by lalaland1125 5y ago
The main issue is that in the US, it seems like voting in the primaries is much more effective than third parties.
Look at groups like the Squad, the Tea Party and Trump. These groups are/were able to achieve substantial changes in party platform by working through the primary system and have shifted politics much more than the third parties in the US ever did.
- AmericanChopper 5y agoYeah, that’s true. But you just run into a different set of inefficiencies there. The higher the level of participation you demand for the electorate, you risk an outcome where you represent popular sentiment less and the intensity in motive and means of individual factions more. The entire idea of electing an executive separately from the legislature is not necessarily efficient in the first place, and the higher level of important placed on for former is quite strange from some perspectives.