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I want to vote for local representatives and a real person. I don't want to vote for Republican LLC and Democratic INC. Parties have no standing at all within
by InTheArena 3y ago
I want to vote for local representatives and a real person. I don't want to vote for Republican LLC and Democratic INC.
Parties have no standing at all within the United States Constitution. The fact that we are talking this way is reflective of the simple fact that the representative democracy (aka Republic) that the United States is has been corrupted by parties that work to their own interest, not the interest of the people.
IF you need any evidence of that, you can see it this week when Democrats voted party line with a few Republicans to remove a speaker for no other reason than it humiliated the republican party and the speaker.
- Macha 3y agoWhat democratic nation in the world does not have political parties? It turns out from both a voter and politician perspective, the fact that banding together into parties for predictable ability to deliver results is an advantage seems to be a global phenomenon. FPTP systems are bad for delivering only two parties, but all systems cause parties of some scale.
- InTheArena 3y agoParties yes - American parties, with monopolistic grab on power and ability to suppress other ideas and parties? No.
- beowulfey 3y agoI think your last paragraph is leaving out a lot of context on the way the Speaker had treated Democrats up to that point. It wasn’t really about humiliation — McCarthy refused to work with the Dems and said as much.