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> I think you'd have to end the two-party system before anything better could happen because that's a HUGE driver of the conflict. No. The US has had first-pas
by donw 5y ago
> I think you'd have to end the two-party system before anything better could happen because that's a HUGE driver of the conflict.
No. The US has had first-past-the-post elections since its inception. The present division is a complex phenomenon starting from the early 2000s.
It's probably hard for anybody under thirty to imagine this, but the difference between "Democrats" and "Republicans" as voting blocs was very small, to the point where politics was just a sort of boring background activity before 9/11.
- beaconstudios 5y agoThe present division would be less possible without a two party system leading to colour politics. To be a Democrat or Republican should not mean as much culturally as they do. It's only through that sharp divide that such conflicts happen so readily.