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They are a tiny minority. It makes no sense for them to have any influence whatsoever. They are not really the problem. The problem is that your institutions o
by alextingle 3y ago
They are a tiny minority. It makes no sense for them to have any influence whatsoever.
They are not really the problem. The problem is that your institutions offer no mechanism for a majority that agrees on a particular course of action to actually make it happen. Silly partisanship trumps running the country.
Perhaps you need to consider secret ballots in your legislature. That would eliminate partisanship in a trice.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The problem is that your institutions offer no mechanism for a majority that agrees on a particular course of action to actually make it happen Yes, it does. What it also does, sometimes, is create incentives for that consensus on some important issues not to form for electoral tactical reasons that go beyond thr immediate issue, even where there would otherwise be consensus on the immediate issue. (Conversely, it sometimes creates a tactical incentive for majority consensus despite disagreement on the merits of the immediate issue.) > Perhaps you need to consider secret ballots in your legislature. That would eliminate partisanship in a trice. It wouldn't eliminate partisanship, but it would eliminate individual accountability of legislators to the electorate, making the system less democratic but equally problematically partisan.