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> party would be successful in the U.S No party besides the democrat or republican party will be successful in the US because first past the post is a fundamen
by zanny 12y ago
> party would be successful in the U.S
No party besides the democrat or republican party will be successful in the US because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties. Combine that with the power of money in politics and gerrymandering and there is no way to fathom competition at the federal level.
> is appalling and disheartening.
For the most part American voters have demonstrated a lack of care for the aftermath of the financial crisis, given how they brought back a Republican majority in congress only four years after realizing how well that worked in the decade prior.
Which is mostly disingenuous, given how politicians in America are all consistently cut from the same cloth and serving the same (private) interests.
> are inheriting the current system
You actually aren't inheriting anything. Youth unemployment at an all time high, average income of bachelors graduates being around 26k a year, the lowest rates of property ownership in half a century, wealth concentration as high as the roaring twenties. The aging with power and money are holding onto it to their grave, and then only their blessed decedents will inherit the means of production. There is no mechanism to disseminate concentrated wealth back into the masses, especially the youth, anymore. Economics used to promote that, and policy used to enable that, but as we approach post-scarcity both have been sabotaged by generations that want to maintain control and power perpetually.
- Brakenshire 12y ago> No party besides the democrat or republican party will be successful in the US because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties. Combine that with the power of money in politics and gerrymandering and there is no way to fathom competition at the federal level. It's interesting, the UK has a similar sort of system, but the vote share of the major two parties has been consistently declining for fifty years. After WWII, almost everybody voted Labour or Conservative, now their combined share is about 65%. Soon, FPTP is going to start delivering some extremely odd results.
- M2Ys4U 12y agoThe difference is that it's very, very simple to set up a political party and contest elections in the UK (it's a matter of a couple of hundred quid and some forms). The hoops that parties (that aren't the Democrats or Republicans) have to jump through border on the insane in some states.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago> because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties You've ran the experiment so many times that you know that it's "always"?
- zo1 12y agoHave a look at this topic, if you're curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
- majuscule 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Tactical_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Tac...