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Comparing two party dictatorship to one party dictatorship, ftfy
by slt2021 5y ago
Comparing two party dictatorship to one party dictatorship, ftfy
- avgcorrection 5y agoThis might sound like a quip but is it even wrong? Every wonk acknowledges that third party votes are likely to be wasted. And people get mad at you if you “protest vote”. How is that not an effective duopoly?
- vineyardmike 5y agoDuopoly and dictatorships are different. The US government is always controlled by one of two political parties but that doesn't make it a dictatorship.
- mrkstu 5y agoAnd the identity of those two parties has changed over time- when a party loses touch with its base, it can and will be replaced.
- nsonha 5y agoyou can say the same thing about a single party system, each administration is different
- avgcorrection 5y agoAnd dynasties… people have kids and die.
- nsonha 5y agocronyism is still slightly better than bloodline, and not worse than random selection, I mean democracy. Politicians don't spend all of their office time running instead of doing work.
- avgcorrection 5y ago> and not worse than random selection, I mean democracy. Not worse based on what? > Politicians don't spend all of their office time running instead of doing work. Of course not. They just spend a ton of time on the phone with the people who are their actual constituents, i.e. their donors.
- avgcorrection 5y ago“Two party dictatorship”.
- nsonha 5y agoI guess this has less to do with the number of parties, more to do with separation of powers, horizontally via branches of the government and vertically through local autonomy, and perhaps free press
- krageon 5y agoIf every option you have is oppression, what is the point of calling it not a dictatorship? Life is shit regardless, you may as well live where it is cheap.
- maerF0x0 5y ago> that third party votes are likely to be wasted Until they're not. There's a pretty reasonable assumption of nonviolent transfer of power to the third/fourth party should R/D lose. I cannot safely say the same about VN or CN
- avgcorrection 5y ago> Until they're not. Aha. I see. Good refutation. China is indeed less democratic than America. I agree. But you haven’t provided a counter-argument to the claim in this subthread.