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> One possible idea is to simply publicly fund the political parties and do away with political donations entirely. No, political parties should be abolished.
by pessimizer 2y ago
> One possible idea is to simply publicly fund the political parties and do away with political donations entirely.
No, political parties should be abolished. People can get together, call themselves whatever they want, and recommend people as candidates for office, but these private organizations should not be institutionalized in law or supported in any way. We shouldn't even be helping with their primaries.
Law shouldn't recognize anything called a "political party" or have any rules governing them. They are not essential, they are corrupting.
- aussieguy1234 2y agoThat would be even better. I would go a step further and have local citizens assemblies manage as much as possible (direct democracy). But with the current system, public funding is probably a better idea than private funding.
- kbolino 2y agoMost laws regulating political parties came about to enforce civil rights. The political parties when left to their own devices engaged in discriminatory practices, which effectively excluded large swathes of people from core parts of the democratic process.