Hearing about Biden’s debate. Astonishing how the institutions of power render them unable to make the obvious choice
@urlyman It's not the institutions of power, though. These political parties are made up of members of the general public.
And at any point the general public membership could demand change.
There's a sense of learned incapacity with the Democratic party right now. So far their membership seems to think that they can't choose a different person simply because of tradition. But they can. And I wish they would. But it's up to the general public, the membership of the parties to choose who they want to put forward.
@urlyman Yeah it's a little complicated and academically it's pretty interesting how the district voting system in the US causes very different outcomes in the overall party system.
It's one of those cases where I quote economists that say there are no solutions, only different options with different trade-offs.
@volkris fair point.
I forget that actual party membership is much higher in the US.
In the UK it’s about 1 in 50 people. I understand that in the US it’s about 1 in 4