WrongHanded
Well-known member
The Two Party system as it stands, is bad. I have an analogy for the problem.
You're going on a political picnic. You get to choose which party you go with. But you must eat every policy in their basket, no matter how bad it tastes to you.
Say what you will, but I have a few firm and unwavering beliefs:
• The Republicans and Democrats do NOT want to share power with any other parties, regardless of how We feel about that.
• They will take an opportunity to "prove" to the us that the other party is crooked, corrupt, and just plain bad.
• Neither care about what we want all that much, because they feel they know what we need better than we do. They only care about convincing us that they "really" do, long enough to get our votes.
I think that a Two Party System can work. But only if we all get a say in who is nominated in each party. And it can work as simply as this:
Anyone not registered as affiliated with any party, can vote in all party primaries. It's that easy.
This means anyone who really wants a say will either remain or become unaffiliated, so that they can make the biggest difference. Then you can vote for the most reasonable people running for each party. Or you can vote for the worst candidate in the party you don't like. Or you can vote for the least electable but most popular fringe candidate running for the party you don't want to win, and increase you candidates chances. And everyone else can choose that for themselves.
Now, what do you think about that? And why?
You're going on a political picnic. You get to choose which party you go with. But you must eat every policy in their basket, no matter how bad it tastes to you.
Say what you will, but I have a few firm and unwavering beliefs:
• The Republicans and Democrats do NOT want to share power with any other parties, regardless of how We feel about that.
• They will take an opportunity to "prove" to the us that the other party is crooked, corrupt, and just plain bad.
• Neither care about what we want all that much, because they feel they know what we need better than we do. They only care about convincing us that they "really" do, long enough to get our votes.
I think that a Two Party System can work. But only if we all get a say in who is nominated in each party. And it can work as simply as this:
Anyone not registered as affiliated with any party, can vote in all party primaries. It's that easy.
This means anyone who really wants a say will either remain or become unaffiliated, so that they can make the biggest difference. Then you can vote for the most reasonable people running for each party. Or you can vote for the worst candidate in the party you don't like. Or you can vote for the least electable but most popular fringe candidate running for the party you don't want to win, and increase you candidates chances. And everyone else can choose that for themselves.
Now, what do you think about that? And why?