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Or... just renew the electoral system to break the two-party system you guys have. People are a lot more agreeable when they have to compromise to get shit done

• atoav 5y ago
  Also: small but loud extremist fringe groups are more likely to break out into their own party, if they see it as an realistic option. There they can be sidelined or loose majority support, which means an election actually represents the will of the people instead of some loud minority.
  • spiralx 5y ago
    Or - as happens frequently in multi-party PR systems - large parties needing to form a majority coalition end up giving small extremist parties concessions in order to secure their support, meaning even a single electoral success can be parlayed into an outsized influence. There's no perfect system.
• rayiner 5y ago
  The culture war doesn’t arise from two-party politics. Indeed, it’s causing people to switch parties as they realign around cultural lines. E.g. when Obama campaigned as a socially moderate economic populist in 2008, he won Iowa by 10 points. Just 8 years later, when Clinton campaigned as a culturally liberal economic moderate, she lost Iowa by 10 points. In the US we have some people that are to the left of France on social issues, and other people that are to the right of Poland, all in the same country. Increasingly, a small contingent of the former have come to dominate the media, corporations, and NGOs. The two party system didn’t create that situation.