Worth a read. I agree with op-ed writer Danielle Allen that there are three political parties in Congress. I’m less taken with the one she calls GOP23 than she seems to be, but their value as partners committed to constitutional democracy isn’t her main point. #GiftAccess https://wapo.st/46Z0SuG
@heidilifeldman Whether there are currently 2, 3, 4, or more political parties in #uspolitics today is beside the point. There should be NONE, the same number prescribed in the U.S. #Constitution !
Counter-intuitively, but required by #MATH , the way to ZERO parties goes through ONE party! #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting is *guaranteed* to neuter corrupt partisanship. ✅
“Chemical Eye 👁️ on Independents’ Day” 👉 http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/070306_macdougall.html
Keep in mind that with the first past the post voting system that is used almost everywhere in the US, political parties end up being a way to address the problems of that voting system.
It's a HUGE problem for people to waste their votes, casting votes strategically by guessing how their neighbors are going to vote, and their neighbors are doing the same strategy, so naturally people start to organize, and that's how you get political parties.
It's just people trying to overcome the problems with that voting system.
The real solution is to move on to a better voting system. Then we wouldn't need political parties to overcome those issues.
But so long as we keep this voting system, political parties are a solution to a very real problem, and we can't just do away with the solution without addressing the problem.
